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Early Childhood Education and Life-cycle Health
García, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 2020
This paper forecasts the life-cycle treatment effects on health of a high-quality early childhood program. Our predictions combine microsimulation using non-experimental data with experimental data from a midlife long-term follow-up. The follow-up incorporated a full epidemiological exam. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207745
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Early Childhood Education and Life-Cycle Health
García, Jorge Luis - 2020
This paper forecasts the life-cycle treatment effects on health of a high-quality early childhood program. Our predictions combine microsimulation using non-experimental data with experimental data from a midlife long-term follow-up. The follow-up incorporated a full epidemiological exam. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838483
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Early childhood education and life-cycle health
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 2020
This paper forecasts the life-cycle treatment effects on health of a high-quality early childhood program. Our predictions combine microsimulation using non-experimental data with experimental data from a midlife long-term follow-up. The follow-up incorporated a full epidemiological exam. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193880
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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation
Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J.; Schennach, Susanne M. - 2010
This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identification of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934523
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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation
Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J.; Schennach, Susanne M. - 2010
This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identfication of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003989930
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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.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308448
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Transcriptional modulation of the developing immune system by early life social adversity
Cole, Steven W.; Conti, Gabriella; Arevalo, Jesusa M.; … - 2012
To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression profiles in 4-month-old animals reared under adverse social conditions. Compared to the basal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629598
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Measuring investment in human capital formation : an experimental analysis of early life outcomes
Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm; Heckman, James J.; Logue, … - 2013
The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787345
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252655
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Early health shocks, intrahousehold resource allocation, and child outcomes
Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - 2014
early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457824