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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James Joseph; Schennach, Susanne - 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 …

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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000

Heckman, James Joseph; Li, Xuesong - 2003

This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use recently developed semiparametric methods to identify...

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Earnings functions and rates of return

Heckman, James Joseph; Lochner, Lance J.; Todd, Petra E. - 2008

internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …

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Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James Joseph; Navarro, Salvador - 2004

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

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Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice

Carneiro, Pedro; Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James Joseph - 2003

This paper uses factor models to identify and estimate distributions of counterfactuals. We extend LISREL frameworks to a dynamic treatment effect setting, extending matching to account for unobserved conditioning variables. Using these models, we can identify all pairwise and joint treatment...

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Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions

Heckman, James Joseph; Lochner, Lance J.; Todd, Petra E. - 2003

The Mincer earnings function is the cornerstone of a large literature in empirical economics. This paper discusses the theoretical foundations of the Mincer model and examines the empirical support for it using data from Decennial Censuses and Current Population surveys. While data from the 1940...

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The rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James Joseph; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2009

This paper estimates the rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention program targeted toward disadvantaged African-American youth. Estimates of the rate of return to the Perry program are widely cited to support the claim of substantial economic benefits from...

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Testing the correlated random coefficient model

Heckman, James Joseph; Schmierer, Daniel; Urzúa, Sergio - 2009

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 baseline-pretreatment 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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The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores

Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James Joseph; Mullen, … - 2003

This paper develops two methods for estimating the effect of schooling on achievement test scores that control for the endogeneity of schooling by postulating that both schooling and test scores are generated by a common unobserved latent ability. These methods are applied to data on schooling...

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