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A New Cost-Benefit and Rate of Return Analysis for the Perry Preschool Program: A Summary
Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2010
This paper summarizes our recent work on the rate of return and cost-benefit ratio of an influential early childhood program.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331385
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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
In contemporary America, racial gaps in achievement are primarily due to gaps in skills. Skill gaps emerge early before 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278496
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Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap
Kritikos, Alexander; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024
We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...
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Intergenerational Long Term Effects of Preschool: Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model
Heckman, James J.; Raut, Lakshmi Kanta - 2013
This paper formulates a structural dynamic programming model of preschool investment choices of altruistic parents and then empirically estimates the structural parameters of the model using the NLSY79 data. The paper finds that preschool investment significantly boosts cognitive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319531
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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 have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291343
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Competitiveness and Convergence: Trade, Merger Control, Industry, and Innovation. Reports
Rieth, Malte; Duso, Tomaso; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel; … - In: DIW Weekly Report 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 140-147
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014956
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Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Konvergenz: Handel, Fusionskontrolle, Industrie, Innovationen. Berichte
Kritikos, Alexander; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 86 (2019) 18, pp. 302-309
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The influence of start-up motivation on entrepreneurial performance
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander; Stier, Claudia - 2022
job creation, expansion and innovation activities for up to 40 months after business formation. Using self … innovation and expansion activities. In a next step, we examine three underlying motivational categories that we term opportunity …, career ambition, and necessity. We show that individuals driven by opportunity motives perform better in terms of innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470681
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Self-efficacy and entrepreneurial performance of start-ups
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander; Rodríguez, Daniel; … - 2023
well as growthoriented outcomes such as job creation and innovation. We find statistically significant and economically … stronger when focusing on the growth-oriented outcome of innovation. Furthermore, we observe that generalized self-efficacy is …
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