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Treatment effects and the measurement of skills in a prototypical home visiting program
Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Lu, Mai; Zhou, Jin - 2020
assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237115
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The lasting effects of early childhood education on promoting the skills and social mobility of disadvantaged African Americans
García, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J.; Ronda, Victor - 2021
disadvantaged African-American children and their children. The program improves outcomes of the first-generation treatment group … that have dominated popular discussions of early childhood programs. Children of the first-generation treatment group have … higher levels of education and employment, lower levels of criminal activity, and better health than children of the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012593048
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The impacts of a prototypical home visiting program on child skills
Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Lu, Mai - 2022
individual children and compare treatments and controls. The program substantially improves child language and cognitive, fine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168792
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Estimation of dynamic discrete choice models by maximum likelihood and the simulated method of moments
Eisenhauer, Philipp; Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014
We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic features of educational choices in the United States in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418037
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The non-market benefits of education and ability
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2017
This paper analyzes the non-market benefits of education and ability. Using a dynamic model of educational choice we estimate returns to education that account for selection bias and sorting on gains. We investigate a range of non-market outcomes including incarceration, mental health, voter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011734499
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Fifty years of mincer earnings regressions
Heckman, James J. (contributor); Lochner, Lance (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001760429
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Human capital policy
Carneiro, Pedro (contributor); Heckman, James J. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001776049
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Selection bias, comparative advantage and heterogeneous heturns to education : evidence from China in 2000
Heckman, James J. (contributor); Li, Xuesong (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001776067
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Estimating distributions of treatment effects with an application to the returns to schooling and measurement of the effects of uncertainty on college choice
Carneiro, Pedro (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001752084
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Separating uncertainty from heterogeneity in life cycle earnings
Cunha, Flávio (contributor); Heckman, James J. (contributor) - 2004
forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002529838