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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566536