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Parenting Promotes Social Mobility Within and Across Generations

García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within and across generations. Instead of conducting a standard meta-analysis, we present a harmonized primary data analysis of programs that shape current policy. Our analysis is a...

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Dealing with Imperfect Randomization : Inference for the HighScope Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Shaikh, Azeem M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...

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The Economic Approach to Personality, Character and Virtue

Heckman, James J.; Galaty, Bridget; Tian, Haihan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 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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Fertility, income distribution, and economic growth : theory and cross-country evidence

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Estimation of a Stochastic Model of Reproduction : An Econometric Approach

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decision making to human fertility behavior. Theoretical emphasis has been given to the effects of the costs of parental tine … time, especially the value of the wife's time. One important objection to static theories of fertility is their failure to … theoretical and econometric model of fertility behavior within a sequential stochastic framework. The principal contribution of …

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Population growth and carbon emissions

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