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Earnings Functions and Rates of Return

Heckman, James J. - 2008

internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …

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Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects : The Mincer Equation and Beyond

Heckman, James J. - 2005

This paper considers the interpretation of "Mincer rates of return." We test and reject the Mincer model. It fails to track the time series of true returns. We show how repeated cross section and panel data improves the ability of analysts to estimate the ex ante and ex post marginal rate of...

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Personality Psychology and Economics

Almlund, Mathilde - 2011

This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is...

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Maximum Impact Intergenerational Associations

Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J.; Landersø, Rasmus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

traditional snapshot proxies for lifetime incomes based on income flows at certain age windows in predicting child outcomes …

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Intergenerational Transmission of Family Influence

Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J.; Landersø, Rasmus; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

of lifetime resources (income and wealth) motivated by economic theory that account for generational differences in life … wage income and disposable income measured over narrow windows of age that are used to proxy lifetime wealth. The … outcomes (including children's own expected lifetime resources and education) than the income measures traditionally used in …

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Parenting Promotes Social Mobility Within and Across Generations

García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within and across generations. Instead of conducting a standard meta-analysis, we present a harmonized primary data analysis of programs that shape current policy. Our analysis is a...

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