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Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market

Acemoglu, Daron - 2011

This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill-biased during the past sixty years. Furthermore, the recent increase in inequality is most likely due to an...

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Intergenerational and Intragenerational Externalities of the Perry Preschool Project

Heckman, James J. - 2019

This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and lower levels of participation in crime, compared with...

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The Perry Preschoolers at Late Midlife : A Study in Design-Specific Inference

Heckman, James J. - 2019

This paper presents the first analysis of the life course outcomes through late midlife (around age 55) for the participants of the iconic Perry Preschool Project, an experimental high-quality preschool program for disadvantaged African-American children in the 1960s. We discuss the design of...

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Patterns of Skill Premia

Acemoglu, Daron - 2021

In this paper, I develop a model to analyze how skill premia differ over time and across countries, and use this model to study the impact of international trade on wage inequality. Skill premia are determined by technology and the relative supply of skills. An increase in the relative supply of...

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Skills, Tasks and Technologies : Implications for Employment and Earnings

Acemoglu, Daron - 2012

A central organizing framework of the voluminous recent literature studying changes in the returns to skills and the evolution of earnings inequality is what we refer to as the canonical model, which elegantly and powerfully operationalizes the supply and demand for skills by assuming two...

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The Sensitivity of Experimental Impact Estimates : Evidence from the National Jtpa Study

Heckman, James J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2021

The recent experimental evaluation of the U.S. Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program found negative effects of training on the earnings of disadvantaged male youth and no effect on the earnings of disadvantaged female youth. These findings provided justification for Congress to cut the...

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Determinants of Young Male Schooling and Training Choices

Cameron, Stephen V.; Heckman, James J. - 2021

This paper examines the determinants of GED acquisition. high school graduation and postsecondary training and schooling choices. Economic factors determining dropping out are considered. The determinants of high school certification by exam are fundamentally different from the determinants of...

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A Note on Adapting Propensity Score Matching and Selection Models to Choice Based Samples

Heckman, James J. - 2010

The probability of selection into treatment plays an important role in matching and selection models. However, this … note establishes that the selection and matching procedures can be implemented using propensity scores fit on choice …

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Using Matching, Instrumental Variables and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models

Heckman, James J.; Navarro-Lozano, Salvador - 2022

selection) in matching, instrumental variable and control functions methods. (2) It contrasts the roles of exclusion … restrictions in matching and selection models. (3) It characterizes the sensitivity of matching to the choice of conditioning …. (4) It demonstrates the problem of choosing the conditioning variables in matching and the failure of conventional model …

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Estimating Marginal Returns to Education

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2010

This paper estimates the marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by different marginal policy changes. The recent instrumental variables literature seeks to estimate this parameter, but in general it does so only under strong assumptions that are tested and found...

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