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because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …
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This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...
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This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287358
This paper estimates gender differences in life-cycle impacts across multiple domains of an influential enriched early … impacts of the program on promoting or alleviating population differences in outcomes by gender. For many outcomes, boys … phenomenon is not found for girls. We investigate the sources of the gender differentials in impacts. …
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This paper organizes and synthesizes the literature on early childhood education and childcare. In it, we go beyond …
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This paper quantifies the experimentally evaluated life-cycle benefits of a widely implemented early childhood program targeting disadvantaged families. We join experimental data with non-experimental data using economic models to forecast its life-cycle benefits. Our baseline estimate of the...
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pioneering high-quality early childhood education program implemented before Head Start that targeted disadvantaged African … education program. We follow participants into late midlife as well as their children into adulthood. Impacts on the original …
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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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beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
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higher levels of education and employment, lower levels of criminal activity, and better health than children of the first …
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