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The economics of human development and social mobility

Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014

importance of credit constraints in forming skills is examined. There is little support for the claim that untargeted income … will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

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The evolution of inequality in education trajectories and graduation outcomes in the US

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022

Longitudinal Survey of Youths which we follow from 16 to 28. We discuss the evolution of family income and ability effects where … component correlated with family income and background variables. We find that the individual cognitive-technical ability … differential prevailing at 16 was increasing with income in the early 80's but much less so in the early 2000's. We find no …

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Schools, skills, and synapses

Heckman, James J. (contributor) - 2008

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

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Estimating complementarity between education and training

Belzil, Christian (contributor); Hansen, Jörgen (contributor) - 2008

In this paper, we formulate and estimate a structural model of post-schooling training that explicitly allows for possible complementarity between initial schooling levels and returns to training. Precisely, the wage outcome equation depends on accumulated schooling and on the incidence of...

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Skill policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2004

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...

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Labor market discrimination and racial differences in premarket factors

Carneiro, Pedro (contributor); Heckman, James J. (contributor) - 2005

We investigate the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic wage gaps. We show that cognitive test scores taken prior to entering the labor market are influenced by schooling. Adjusting the scores for racial/ethnic differences in...

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Dynamic skill accumulation, education policies and the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2017

Using a dynamic skill accumulation model of schooling and labor supply with learning-by-doing, we decompose early life-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and unobserved heterogeneity, and evaluate the effect of...

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Estimating a model of qualitative and quantitative education choices in France

Belzil, Christian; Poinas, François - 2018

We estimate a structural model of education choices in which individuals choose between a professional (or technical) and a general track at both high school and university levels using French panel data (Génération 98). The average per-period utility of attending general high school (about...

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Evaluation of the reggio approach to early education

Biroli, Pietro; Del Boca, Daniela; Heckman, James J.; … - 2017

We evaluate the Reggio Approach using non-experimental data on individuals from the cities of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Padova belonging to one of five age cohorts: ages 50, 40, 30, 18, and 6 as of 2012. The treated were exposed to municipally offered infant-toddler (ages 0–3) and preschool...

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The economics, technology and neuroscience of human capability formation

Heckman, James J. (contributor) - 2007

This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capital approach to health economics and the economics of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation. A lifecycle investment framework is the foundation for understanding the origins of human inequality and for...

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