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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 (ages...
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Accounting for Dropouts in Evaluations of Social Experiments
Heckman, James J.; Smith, Jeffrey A.; Taber, Christopher - 2021
This paper considers the statistical and economic justification for one widely-used method of adjusting data from social experiments to account for dropping-out behavior due to Bloom (1984). We generalize the method to apply to distributions not just means, and present tests of the key...
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Evaluating the Welfare State
Heckman, James J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2021
-used econometric evaluation estimators and relate them to the requirements of a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis. We present … evidence on how the inference from the most commonly used econometric evaluation estimator is modified when the direct costs of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227501
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Building Bridges between Structural and Program Evaluation Approaches to Evaluating Policy
Heckman, James J. - 2010
This paper compares the structural approach to economic policy analysis with the program evaluation approach. It offers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142075
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The Performance of Performance Standards
Heckman, James J.; Heinrich, Carolyn; Smith, Jeffrey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
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