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Comparing China REACH and the Jamaica Home Visiting Program
Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Mai, Lu; Chang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper summarizes empirical findings from a series of recent papers studying a replication of the Jamaica Reach Up and Learn home visiting program in China, China REACH. It collects more detailed information than is available on the original program. An analysis of it facilitates...
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Sample selection bias as a specification error
Heckman, James J. - In: Applied Econometrics 31 (2013) 3, pp. 129-137
Sample selection bias as a specification error This paper discusses the bias that results from using non-randomly selected samples to estimate behavioral relationships as an ordinary specification error or «omitted variables» bias. A simple consistent two stage estimator is considered that...
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The third birth in Sweden
Heckman, James J.; Walker, James R. - 1989
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Forecasting aggregate period birth rates : the time series properties of a microdynamic neoclassical model of fertility
Heckman, James J.; Walker, James R. - 1989
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The relationship between wages and income and the timing and spacing of births : evidence from Swedish longitudinal data
Heckman, James J. - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 58 (1990) 6, pp. 1411-1441
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The third birth in Sweden
Heckman, James J. - In: Journal of population economics 3 (1990) 4, pp. 235-275
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Economic models of fertility dynamics : a study of Swedish fertility
Heckman, James J. - In: Research in population economics : a research annual 7 (1991), pp. 3-91
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Estimation of a stochastic model of reproduction : an econometric approach
Heckman, James J.; Willis, Robert J. - 1974
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Maternal influence on birth outcomes and intergenerational advantage
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - In: Journal of human capital : JHC 18 (2024) 1, pp. 1-43
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Forecasting Aggregate Period Specific Birth Rates : The Time Series Properties of a Microdynamic Neoclassical Model of Fertility
Heckman, James J. - 1989
This article demonstrates the value of microdata for understanding the effect of wages on life cycle fertility dynamics …. Conventional estimates of neoclassical economic fertility models obtained from linear aggregate time series regressions are widely …. This article demonstrates, that when neoclassical models of fertility are estimated on microdata using methods that …
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