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The Case for Investing in Disadvantaged Young Children
Heckman, James J. - In: CESifo DICE Report 06 (2008) 2, pp. 3-8
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011696637
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The case for investing in disadvantaged young children : early childhood education and care (Forum)
Heckman, James J. - In: CESifo DICE report : journal for institutional comparisons 6 (2008) 2, pp. 3-8
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003744846
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Schools, skills, and synapses
Heckman, James J. - 2008
emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870356
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The productivity argument for investing in young children
Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2007
This paper presents a productivity argument for investing in disadvantaged young children. For such investment, there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003450520
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Human capital formation in childhood and adolescence : life-course perspective and social policies (Forum)
Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J. - In: CESifo DICE report : journal for institutional comparisons 7 (2009) 4, pp. 22-28
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931210
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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation
Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J.; Schennach, Susanne M. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933867
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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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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation
Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J.; Schennach, Susanne M. - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 78 (2010) 3, pp. 883-931
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003992576
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Early childhood intervention : rationale, timing, and efficacy
Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm; Heckman, James J.; Tremblay, … - 2007
This paper provides a brief review of the economic rationale for investing in early childhood. It discusses the optimal timing of intervention, with reference to recent work in developmental neuroscience, and asks how early is early? It motivates the need for early intervention by providing an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799189