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Caucutt, Elizabeth M. - 2015

The economic and social mobility of a generation may be largely determined by the time it enters school given early developing and persistent gaps in child achievement by family income and the importance of adolescent skill levels for educational attainment and lifetime earnings. After providing...

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China's human capital investment

Heckman, James J. - In: China economic review : an international journal 16 (2005) 1, pp. 50-70

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China's Investment in Human Capital

Heckman, James J. - 2002

This paper discusses evidence on human capital investment in China. Policies through the mid 1990s favor physical …

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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Yi, Junjian - 2014

. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey …

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China

Heckman, James J. - 2012

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …

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Policies to Foster Human Capital

Heckman, James J. - 1999

This paper considers the sources of skill formation in a modern economy and emphasizes the importance of both cognitive and noncognitive skills in producing economic and social success and the importance of both formal academic institutions and families and firms as sources of learning. Skill...

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Measuring Knowledge

Heckman, James J.; Zhou, Jin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Empirical studies in the economics of education, the measurement of skill gaps across demographic groups, and the impacts of interventions on skill formation rely on psychometrically validated test scores that record the proportion of items correctly answered. Test scores are sometimes taken as...

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Child Skill Production : Accounting for Parental and Market-Based Time and Goods Investments

Caucutt, Elizabeth M. - 2020

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Non-Production Benefits of Education : Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship

Lochner, Lance - 2011

A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide-range of benefits that extend beyond increases in labor market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic participation. This chapter reviews recent developments on these...

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Investing in Our Young People

Cunha, Flavio - 2010

This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. Noncognitive skills play a fundamental role in successful lives. The dynamics of skill formation reveal...

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