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The performance of performance standards
Heckman, James J.; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2002
This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in … government organizations. We present a model of how performance incentives may distort bureaucratic decisions. We define cream … skimming within the model. Two major empirical findings are (a) that the short run measures used to monitor performance are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412037
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On criteria for evaluating social programs
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 2022
This paper examines some recently proposed criteria for evaluation of the net social benefits of social programs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171589
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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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Three criteria for evaluating social programs
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 2022
contract the total government budget. A recent addition to the list of evaluation criteria - the marginal value of public funds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013382023