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The economics of human development and social mobility

Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014

This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...

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The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility

Heckman, James J. - 2014

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Heckman, James J.; Layne-Farrar, Anne; Todd, Petra - 1995

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Human capital pricing equations with an application to estimating the effect of schooling quality on earnings

Heckman, James J. - In: The review of economics and statistics 78 (1996) 4, pp. 562-610

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Does measured school quality really matter? : An examination of the earnings-quality relationship

Heckman, James J. - 1995

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Simple estimators for treatment parameters in a latent variable framework with an application to estimating the returns to schooling

Heckman, James J.; Tobias, Justin L.; Vytlacil, Edward - 2000

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Simple estimators for treatment parameters in a latent-variable framework

Heckman, James J.; Tobias, Justin L.; Vytlacil, Edward - In: The review of economics and statistics 85 (2003) 3, pp. 748-755

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Using matching, instrumental variables and control functions to estimate economic choice models

Heckman, James J.; Navarro, Salvador - 2003 - Final draft January, 2003

of selection) in matching, instrumental variable and control functions methods. (2) It contrasts the roles of exclusion … restrictions in matching and selection models. (3) It characterizes the sensivity of matching to the choice of conditioning …. (4) It demonstrates the problem of choosing the conditioning variables in matching and the failure of conventional model …

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Selection bias, comparative advantage and heterogeneous returns to education : evidence from China in 2000

Heckman, James J.; Li, Xuesong - 2003 - Revised

This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use recently developed semiparametric methods to identify...

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Chapter 9. The GED

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 423-483). 2011

The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight-hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost...

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