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The Scandinavian fantasy : the sources of intergenerational mobility in Denmark and the U.S.

Landersø, Rasmus; Heckman, James J. - 2016

because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …

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Education, health and wages

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2014

responses to education and find evidence for substantial heterogeneity in unobserved variables on which agents make choices. The … estimated treatment effects of education are decomposed into the direct benefits of attaining a given level of schooling and … estimated treatment effects. While the estimated causal effects of education are substantial for most outcomes, we also estimate …

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Returns to education : the causal effects of education on earnings, health and smoking

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2016

This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in … differentials. For some, there are substantial causal effects of education at all stages of schooling. …

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Symposium on child development and parental investment : introduction

Francesconi, Marco; Heckman, James J. - 2016

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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later: linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519178

Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891763

Randomization and social policy evaluation revisited

Heckman, James J. - 2020

This paper examines the case for randomized controlled trials in economics. I revisit my previous paper "Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation" and update its message. I present a brief summary of the history of randomization in economics. I identify two waves of enthusiasm for the method...

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Do natives' beliefs about refugees' education level affect attitudes toward refugees? : evidence from randomized survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Piopiunik, Marc; Simon, Lisa - 2017

exogenously shifted participants' beliefs about refugees' education level through information provision. Consistent with economic … theory, we find that beliefs about refugees' education significantly affect concerns about labor market competition. These …

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Children's patience and school-track choices several years later : linking experimental and field data

Angerer, Silvia; Bolvashenkova, Jana; … - 2021

We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three years later at the end of middle school, we find...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533965

Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895602