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-market frictions and an operative labor supply margin, wherein economic turbulence à la Ljungqvist and Sargent (1998) interact with …

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Turbulence, firm decentralization and growth in bad times

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hardest hit by the subsequent crisis. We present a model where higher turbulence benefits decentralized firms because the … value of local information and urgent action increases. Since turbulence rises in severe downturns, decentralized firms do …

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The impacts of a prototypical home visiting program on child skills

Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Mai, Lu - 2022

This paper uses random assignment to estimate the causal impacts on child skills of a widely emulated early childhood home visiting program. We show the feasibility of replicating it at scale. We estimate vectors of latent skills for individual children and compare treatments and controls. The...

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Treatment effects and the measurement of skills in a prototypical home visiting program

Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Mai, Lu; Zhou, Jin - 2020

This paper evaluates the causal impacts of an early childhood home visiting program for which treatment is randomly assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We identify average treatment effects of skills on performance...

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