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Heckman, James J. - 2016

This paper discusses the relevance of recent research on the economics of human development to the work of the Human … Development and Capability Association. The recent economics of human development brings insights about the dynamics of skill … opportunities and hence promote capabilities. We address measurement problems common to both the economics of human development and …

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Pricing Neighborhoods

Eshaghnia, Sadegh S. M.; Heckman, James J.; Razavi, Goya - 2023

Education in Denmark is freely available. Despite near equal teacher salaries and per-pupil school expenditure across districts, there is substantial spatial heterogeneity in school quality as measured by teacher quality and student test scores. We argue that this is due to sorting of teachers...

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Personality Psychology and Economics

Almlund, Mathilde - 2011

avenues for addressing poverty and disadvantage …

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Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics

Heckman, James J. - 2011

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Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe

Heckman, James J. - 2010

the population. Reinvention of human capital policies is required to avoid increasing welfare state dependency among the …. There is no trade-off between equity and efficiency at early ages of human development but there is a substantial trade …

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The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children

Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2021

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The Scandinavian Fantasy : The Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the U.S

Landersø, Rasmus - 2016

This paper examines the sources of differences in social mobility between the U.S. and Denmark. Measured by income mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational mobility. There are pronounced nonlinearities in income and educational mobility in both countries....

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The Technology of Skill Formation

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J. - 2021

This paper develops a model of skill formation that explains a variety of findings established in the child development …

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The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience ofHuman Capability Formation

Heckman, James J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capitalapproach to health economics and the economics of cognitive and noncognitive skillformation. ...

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The Developmental Approach to Child and Adult Health

Conti, Gabriella - 2012

Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child...

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