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Intergenerational and Intragenerational Externalities of the Perry Preschool Project

Heckman, James J. - 2019

This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original … participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and … lower levels of participation in crime, compared with the children of untreated participants. Impacts are especially …

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Perry Preschool at 50 : What Lessons Should Be Drawn and Which Criticisms Ignored?

Baulos, Alison W.; García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The Perry Preschool Project, the longest-running experimental study of an early childhood education program, demonstrates how such interventions can yield long-term personal, societal, and intergenerational benefits for disadvantaged populations. The evidence is clear: investments in...

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Earnings Functions and Rates of Return

Heckman, James J. - 2008

internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …

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Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects : The Mincer Equation and Beyond

Heckman, James J. - 2005

This paper considers the interpretation of "Mincer rates of return." We test and reject the Mincer model. It fails to track the time series of true returns. We show how repeated cross section and panel data improves the ability of analysts to estimate the ex ante and ex post marginal rate of...

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The Perry Preschoolers at Late Midlife : A Study in Design-Specific Inference

Heckman, James J. - 2019

-American children in the 1960s. We discuss the design of the experiment, compromises in and adjustments to the randomization protocol …

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Schools, Skills, and Synapses

Heckman, James J. - 2008

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

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The Life-cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program

García, Jorge Luis - 2016

beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …

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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Yi, Junjian - 2014

early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …

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Measuring Knowledge

Heckman, James J.; Zhou, Jin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Empirical studies in the economics of education, the measurement of skill gaps across demographic groups, and the impacts of interventions on skill formation rely on psychometrically validated test scores that record the proportion of items correctly answered. Test scores are sometimes taken as...

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The Race Between Demand and Supply : Tinbergen's Pioneering Studies of Earnings Inequality

Heckman, James J. - 2018

Understanding inequality and devising policies to alleviate it was a central focus of Jan Tinbergen's lifetime research. He was far ahead of his time in many aspects of his work. This essay places his work in the perspective of research on inequality in his time and now, focusing on his studies...

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