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The impacts of a prototypical home visiting program on child skills
Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Mai, Lu - 2022
This paper uses random assignment to estimate the causal impacts on child skills of a widely emulated early childhood … individual children and compare treatments and controls. The program substantially improves child language and cognitive, fine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168792
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Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program
Heckman, James J. - 2020
identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831231
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Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program
Heckman, James J. - 2020
identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831282
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Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program
Heckman, James J. - 2020
identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481551
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Treatment effects and the measurement of skills in a prototypical home visiting program
Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Mai, Lu; Zhou, Jin - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254466
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Treatment effects and the measurement of skills in a prototypical home visiting program
Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Mai, Lu; Zhou, Jin - 2020
identify average treatment effects of skills on performance in a variety of tasks. The program substantially improves child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237115
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The case for investing in disadvantaged young children : early childhood education and care (Forum)
Heckman, James J. - In: CESifo DICE report : journal for institutional comparisons 6 (2008) 2, pp. 3-8
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003744846
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Schools, skills, and synapses
Heckman, James J. - 2008
This paper discusses (a) the role of cognitive and noncognitive ability in shaping adult outcomes, (b) the early emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the role of families in creating these abilities, (d)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870356
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The productivity argument for investing in young children
Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003450520
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Human capital formation in childhood and adolescence : life-course perspective and social policies (Forum)
Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J. - In: CESifo DICE report : journal for institutional comparisons 7 (2009) 4, pp. 22-28
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931210