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Short and long-term effects of unemployment on fertility

Currie, Janet M.; Schwandt, Hannes - 2015

Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …

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The COVID-19 baby bump : the unexpected increase in U.S. fertility rates in response to the pandemic

Bailey, Martha J.; Currie, Janet M.; Schwandt, Hannes - 2022

to August 2022 to examine the childbearing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although fertility rates declined in 2020 … reversal in declining U.S. fertility rates since 2007 and was most pronounced for first births and women under age 25, which …

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Parenting promotes social mobility within and across generations

García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 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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Economic, neurobiological and behavioral perspectives on building America's future workforce

Knudsen, Eric I.; Heckman, James J.; Cameron, Judy L.; … - 2006

A growing proportion of the U.S. workforce will have been raised in disadvantaged environments that are associated with relatively high proportions of individuals with diminished cognitive and social skills. A cross-disciplinary examination of research in economics, developmental psychology, and...

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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation

Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J.; Schennach, Susanne M. - 2010

of substitution between investments in one period and stocks of skills in that period to assess the benefits of early … of substitution between investments in one period and stocks of skills in that period to assess the benefits of early …

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The effects of two influential early childhood interventions on health and healthy behaviors

Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2015

This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC)....

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Mortality inequality : the good news from a county-level approach

Currie, Janet M.; Schwandt, Hannes - 2016

affecting different segments of the population. We show that the differential timing of smoking reductions among the rich and …

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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...

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Inference with imperfect randomization : the case of the Perry Preschool program

Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Shaikh, Azeem M.; … - 2011

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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Early childhood education

Elango, Sneha; García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; … - 2015

This paper organizes and synthesizes the literature on early childhood education and childcare. In it, we go beyond meta-analysis and reanalyze primary data sources in a common framework. We consider the evidence from means-tested demonstration programs, large-scale means-tested programs and...

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