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Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : Maternal Endowments, Investments, and Birth Outcomes

Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal endowments and investments (education and smoking in...

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The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors

Conti, Gabriella - 2015

This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC)....

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Personality Psychology and Economics

Almlund, Mathilde - 2011

This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is...

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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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Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings

Cunha, Flavio - 2005

forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of …

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Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors

Carneiro, Pedro - 2003

. Their study has been faulted because minority children and their parents may have pessimistic expectations about receiving … outcomes, minority parents and children have more pessimistic expectations about child schooling relative to white children and … their parents when their children are young. At later ages, expectations are more uniform across racial and ethnic groups …

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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education

Heckman, James J. - 2003

This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use recently developed semiparametric methods to identify...

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The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling

Carneiro, Pedro - 2002

This paper examines the family income -- college enrollment relationship and the evidence on credit constraints in post … ability. Long-run factors crystallized in ability are the major determinants of the family income -- schooling relationship …

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