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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation

Cunha, Flavio; 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 …

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Personality psychology and economics

Almlund, Mathilde; Duckworth, Angela Lee; Heckman, James J. - 2011

This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is...

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The American family in black and white: A post-racial strategy for improving skills to promote equality

Heckman, James J. - 2011

children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to … inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter … growing fraction of American children across all race and ethnic groups is being raised in dysfunctional families. Investment …

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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

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A New Cost-Benefit and Rate of Return Analysis for the Perry Preschool Program: A Summary

Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2010

This paper summarizes our recent work on the rate of return and cost-benefit ratio of an influential early childhood program.

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Testing the correlated random coefficient model

Heckman, James J.; Schmierer, Daniel; Urzua, Sergio - 2010

The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status on the basis of gains from treatment as well as on baselinepretreatment levels. Components of the gains known to the agents and acted on by them may not be known by the observing...

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Labor market discrimination and racial differences in premarket factors

Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2005

We investigate the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic wage gaps. We show that cognitive test scores taken prior to entering the labor market are influenced by schooling. Adjusting the scores for racial/ethnic differences in...

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Separating uncertainty from heterogeneity in life cycle earnings

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Navarro, Salvador - 2005

forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60 % of …

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The Non-Market Benefits of Education and Ability

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2017

This paper analyzes the non-market benefits of education and ability. Using a dynamic model of educational choice we estimate returns to education that account for selection bias and sorting on gains. We investigate a range of non-market outcomes including incarceration, mental health, voter...

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Athletes Greatly Benefit from Participation in Sports at the College and Secondary Level

Heckman, James J.; Loughlin, Colleen P. - 2021

paper uses panel data for two different cohorts that follow students from high school through college and into their post … minority students are substantial, contrary to the anecdotes in play in the media and in the courts. …

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