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Some Contributions of Economics to the Study of Personality

Heckman, James J. - 2019

develop over the life cycle and can be enhanced by education, parenting, and environmental influences to different degrees at …

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Friendship networks and political opinions: a natural experiment among future French politicians

Algan, Yann; Dalvit, Nicolò; Do, Quoc-Anh; Le … - 2020

We study how social interaction and friendship shape students' political opinions in a natural experiment at Sciences Po, the cradle of top French politicians. We exploit arbitrary assignments of students into short-term integration groups before their scholar cursus, and use the pairwise...

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Early childhood education and life-cycle health

García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 2020

This paper forecasts the life-cycle treatment effects on health of a high-quality early childhood program. Our predictions combine microsimulation using non-experimental data with experimental data from a midlife long-term follow-up. The follow-up incorporated a full epidemiological exam. The...

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Unordered monotonicity

Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2017

This paper presents a new monotonicity condition for unordered discrete choice models with multiple treatments. Unlike a less general version of monotonicity in binary and ordered choice models, monotonicity in unordered discrete choice models along with other standard assumptions does not...

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The life-cycle benefits of an influential early childhood program

García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J.; … - 2016

beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …

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The lasting effects of early childhood education on promoting the skills and social mobility of disadvantaged African Americans

García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J.; … - 2021

higher levels of education and employment, lower levels of criminal activity, and better health than children of the first …

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The price of gold : dowry and death in India

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Gulesci, Selim - 2016

determination technology, in the sex ratio at birth. This constitutes the first evidence that dowry costs lead parents to eliminate …

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The puzzle of Muslim advantage in child survival in India

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Valente, Christine; Soest, Arthur van - 2009

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential … communities and especially the Muslim deficit in parental education predict a Hindu advantage. Alternative outcomes and …

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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes

Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - 2012

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...

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Gender, crime and punishment: evidence from women police stations in India

Amaral, Sofia; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Prakash, Nishith - 2021

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender- based violence. Using …

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