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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation
Cunha, Flavio; 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288377
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Personality psychology and economics
Almlund, Mathilde; Duckworth, Angela Lee; Heckman, James J. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278622
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The American family in black and white: A post-racial strategy for improving skills to promote equality
Heckman, James J. - 2011
children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to … inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter … growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families. Investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278496
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The Case for Investing in Disadvantaged Young Children
Heckman, James J. - In: CESifo DICE Report 06 (2008) 2, pp. 3-8
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696637
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Measuring Investment in Human Capital Formation: An Experimental Analysis of Early Life Outcomes
Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm P.; Heckman, James J.; Logue, … - 2013
The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328970
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Measuring investment in human capital formation: An experimental analysis of early life outcomes
Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm; Heckman, James J.; Logue, … - 2013
The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343164
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Human Capital Formation in Childhood and Adolescence
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J. - In: CESifo DICE Report 07 (2009) 4, pp. 22-28
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696686
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Transcriptional modulation of the developing immune system by early life social adversity
Cole, Steven W.; Conti, Gabriella; Arevalo, Jesusa M.; … - 2012
To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression profiles in 4-month-old animals reared under adverse social conditions. Compared to the basal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289875
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The economics of child well-being
Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J. - 2012
This chapter presents an integrated economic approach that organizes and interprets the evidence on child development. It also discusses the indicators of child well-being that are used in international comparisons. Recent evidence on child development is summarized, and policies to promote...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290008
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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291343