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Private notes on Gary Becker
Heckman, James J. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358858
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Gary Becker : model economic scientist
Heckman, James J. - 2015
This paper presents Gary Becker's approach to conducting creative, empirically fruitful economic research. It describes the traits and methodology that made him such a productive and influential scholar.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477886
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Parenting Promotes Social Mobility Within and Across Generations
García, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 2022
-cognitive skills. Participants in programs that enrich home environments grow up with better skills, jobs, earnings, marital stability … crucial component of successful programs: they activate and promote parenting skills of child caregivers. The home …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470435
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Investing in our young people
Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J. - 2010
This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the … multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. Noncognitive skills play a fundamental role in … successful lives. The dynamics of skill formation reveal the interplay of cognitive and noncognitive skills, and the presence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003987165
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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
, recipients still face limited opportunity due to deficits in noncognitive skills such as persistence, motivation, and reliability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025653
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Investing in Our Young People
Cunha, Flavio - 2010
This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the … multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. Noncognitive skills play a fundamental role in … successful lives. The dynamics of skill formation reveal the interplay of cognitive and noncognitive skills, and the presence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141217
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Parenting promotes social mobility within and across generations
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 2022
-cognitive skills. Participants in programs that enrich home environments grow up with better skills, jobs, earnings, marital stability … crucial component of successful programs: they activate and promote parenting skills of child caregivers. The home …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013431414
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The Technology of Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J. - 2021
This paper develops a model of skill formation that explains a variety of findings established in the child development and child intervention literatures. At its core is a technology that is stage-specific and that features self productivity, dynamic complementarity and skill multipliers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317243
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Private Notes on Gary Becker
Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper celebrates the life and contributions of Gary Becker (1930-2014).
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775116
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Gary Becker: Model Economic Scientist
Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper presents Gary Becker's approach to conducting creative, empirically fruitful economic research. It describes the traits and methodology that made him such a productive and influential scholar.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165593