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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills: an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021

connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …

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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 identification 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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Symposium on child development and parental investment : introduction

Francesconi, Marco; Heckman, James J. - 2016

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Intergenerational transmission of family influence

Eshaghnia, Sadegh S. M.; Heckman, James J.; Landersø, … - 2022

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Where do STEM graduates stem from? : the intergenerational transmission of comparative skill advantages

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2023

comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …

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Intergenerational transmission of inequality : maternal endowments, investments, and birth outcomes

Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - 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 college wage premium, overeducation, and the expansion of higher education in the UK

Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2005

This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1996 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree the "college premium". The data covers a decade when the university participation rate doubled yet we find no significant evidence that the mean return to a degree dropped...

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Long-run trends in the U.S. SES-achievement gap

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Peterson, Paul E.; Talpey, Laura M.; … - 2020

Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socio-economic status (SES). Using assessments from LTT-NAEP, Main-NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA that are psychometrically linked over time, we trace trends in achievement for U.S....

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The effects of two influential early childhood interventions on health and healthy behaviors

Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 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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The economics of human development and social mobility

Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014

importance of credit constraints in forming skills is examined. There is little support for the claim that untargeted income … will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

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