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Productivity Versus Motivation in Adolescent Human Capital Production : Evidence from a Structurally-Motivated Field Experiment

Cotton, Christopher; Hickman, Brent; List, John A.; … - 2020

We leverage a field experiment across three distinct school districts to identify key pieces of a structural model of adolescent human capital production. Our focus is inspired by the contemporary psychology of education literature, which expresses learning as a function of the ratio of the time...

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The Economic Approach to Personality, Character and Virtue

Heckman, James J.; Galaty, Bridget; Tian, Haihan - 2023

This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...

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Tapping into Talent : Coupling Education and Innovation Policies for Economic Growth

Akcigit, Ufuk; Pearce, Jeremy; Prato, Marta - 2020

How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This paper analyzes … about the links between talent, higher education, and innovation. We use these facts to calibrate the model and study … when combined with higher education policy that alleviates financial frictions for talented youth. Education and innovation …

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Parental Education and Invention : The Finnish Enigma

Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Hyytinen, Ari; … - 2023

Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the US but also in Finland which displays low income inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45M Finnish individuals and their parents, we find that: (i) the positive association between parental income...

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Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality

Eika, Lasse - 2019

We document the degree of educational assortative mating, how it evolves over time, and the extent to which it differs between countries. Our analysis focuses on the U.S. but also uses data from Denmark, Germany, the U.K., and Norway. We find evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels...

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College as a Marriage Market

Kirkebøen, Lars J.; Leuven, Edwin; Mogstad, Magne - 2021

Recent descriptive work suggests the type of college education (field or institution) is an important but neglected pathway through which individuals sort into homogeneous marriages. These descriptive studies raise the question of why college graduates are so likely to marry someone within their...

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What We Teach About Race and Gender : Representation in Images and Text of Children’s Books

Adukia, Anjali; Eble, Alex; Harrison, Emileigh; … - 2021

Books shape how children learn about society and social norms, in part through the representation of different characters. To better understand the messages children encounter in books, we introduce new artificial intelligence methods for systematically converting images into data. We apply...

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The Social Side of Early Human Capital Formation : Using a Field Experiment to Estimate the Causal Impact of Neighborhoods

List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2021

The behavioral revolution within economics has been largely driven by psychological insights, with the sister sciences playing a lesser role. This study leverages insights from sociology to explore the role of neighborhoods on human capital formation at an early age. We do so by estimating the...

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The Increase in Children’s Math Skill from an Experimental Increase in Parent Investment in Math Activities

Mayer, Susan; Kalil, Ariel; Delgado, William; Liu, Haoxuan - 2022

Almost none of the research showing that greater parent engagement increases children’s cognitive skill exogenously increases parent engagement. In a randomized experiment we find that providing parents with information and materials relevant to engaging in math activities along with text...

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Intergenerational Transmission of Family Influence

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

This paper studies intergenerational mobility—the transmission of family influence. We develop and estimate measures of lifetime resources (income and wealth) motivated by economic theory that account for generational differences in life-cycle trajectories, uncertainty, and credit constraints....

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