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Education, health and wages
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2014
different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a … shaping educational choices and labor market and health outcomes. We improve on LATE by identifying the groups affected by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257595
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595977
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Education, Health and Wages
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a … shaping educational choices and labor market and health outcomes. We improve on LATE by identifying the groups affected by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752228
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The Life-cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program
García, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J.; Leaf, Duncan Ermini - 2016
beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653184
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Gender Differences in the Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program
García, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J.; Ziff, Anna - 2017
This paper estimates gender differences in life-cycle impacts across multiple domains of an influential enriched early childhood program targeted toward disadvantaged children that was evaluated by the method of random assignment. We assess the impacts of the program on promoting or alleviating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653486
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The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors
Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2015
This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U … early life interventions for promoting health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307442
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Returns to Education: The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health and Smoking
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2016
This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches used in the reduced form treatment effect literature. It is an empirically robust middle ground between the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494329
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Primate Evidence on the Late Health Effects of Early Life Adversity
Conti, Gabriella; Hansman, Christopher; Heckman, James J.; … - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2012
mental health in a sample of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). We analyze the health records of 231 monkeys which were … detrimental long-term effects on health which are not compensated by a normal social environment later in life. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541454
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The Developmental Approach to Child and Adult Health
Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271974
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Primate Evidence on the Late Health Effects of Early Life Adversity
Conti, Gabriella; Hansman, Christopher; Heckman, James J.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
mental health in a sample of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). We analyze the health records of 231 monkeys which were … detrimental long-term effects on health which are not compensated by a normal social environment later in life. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279233