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Parenting Promotes Social Mobility Within and Across Generations
García, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470435
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Parenting promotes social mobility within and across generations
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013431414
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435172
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Parenting Promotes Social Mobility within and Across Generations
García, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014237411
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Parenting Promotes Social Mobility within and Across Generations
García, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014237461
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572173
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Lessons from Denmark about Inequality and Social Mobility
Heckman, James J.; Landerso, Rasmus - 2021
Many American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with low levels of income inequality and high levels of income mobility across generations. It has in place many social policies now advocated for adoption in the U.S. Despite generous Danish social policies, family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597331
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Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies?
Heckman, James J.; Krueger, Alan B. - The MIT Press
The surge of inequality in income and wealth in the United States over the past twenty-five years has reversed the steady progress toward greater equality that had been underway throughout most of the twentieth century. This economic development has defied historical patterns and surprised many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755472
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Lessons from Denmark about inequality and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Landersø, Rasmus - 2021
Many American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with low levels of income inequality and high levels of income mobility across generations. It has in place many social policies now advocated for adoption in the U.S. Despite generous Danish social policies, family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486467
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Lessons from Denmark About Inequality and Social Mobility
Heckman, James J.; Landersø, Rasmus - 2021
Many American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with low levels of income inequality and high levels of income mobility across generations. It has in place many social policies now advocated for adoption in the U.S. Despite generous Danish social policies, family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238658