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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation

Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J.; Schennach, Susanne M. - 2010

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identfication of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

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Identifying the returns to lying when the truth is unobserved

Hu, Yingyao (contributor); Lewbel, Arthur (contributor) - 2007 - rev.

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Trends in quality-adjusted skill premia in the United States, 1960 - 2000

Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae - 2008 - This version: September 2008

This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 8 percentage points in the college premium. The standard demand and supply framework (Katz and Murphy, 1992, Card...

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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries

Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2022

It is often desired to rank different populations according to the value of some feature of each population. For example, it may be desired to rank neighborhoods according to some measure of intergenerational mobility or countries according to some measure of academic achievement. These rankings...

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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries

Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2021

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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries

Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Wilhelm, Daniel; … - 2020

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Inference for ranks with applications to mobility across neighborhoods and academic achievement across countries

Mogstad, Magne; Romano, Joseph P.; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2023

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Child mental health and educational attainment : multiple observers and the measurement error problem

Johnston, David; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen E.; … - 2011 - This version: July 15, 2011

progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining … educational progress. We also find a strong tendency for observers to understate the problems of older children and adolescents …

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Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents

Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Parey, Matthias - 2010

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our … results show substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate …

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Fuzzy differences-in- differences

Chaisemartin, Clément de; D'Haultfœuille, Xavier - 2015

In many applications of the differences-in-differences (DID) method, the treatment increases more in the treatment group, but some units are also treated in the control group. In such fuzzy designs, a popular estimator of treatment effects is the DID of the outcome divided by the DID of the...

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