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Heckman, James J. - 2008

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

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The Race between Demand and Supply : Tinbergen's Pioneering Studies of Earnings Inequality

Heckman, James J. - 2019

Understanding inequality and devising policies to alleviate it was a central focus of Jan Tinbergen's lifetime research. He was far ahead of his time in many aspects of his work. This essay places his work in the perspective of research on inequality in his time and now, focusing on his studies...

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Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models by Maximum Likelihood and the Simulated Method of Moments

Eisenhauer, Phillipp - 2014

We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic features of educational choices in the United States in...

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Inference with Imperfect Randomization : The Case of the Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James J. - 2011

This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...

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The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel; Heckman, James J. - 2021

This paper examines the family income -- college enrollment relationship and the evidence on credit constraints in post … ability. Long-run factors crystallized in ability are the major determinants of the family income -- schooling relationship …

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Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Navarro-Lozano, Salvador - 2021

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

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Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel; Heckman, James J.; Masterov, … - 2021

. Their study has been faulted because minority children and their parents may have pessimistic expectations about receiving … outcomes, minority parents and children have more pessimistic expectations about child schooling relative to white children and … their parents when their children are young. At later ages, expectations are more uniform across racial and ethnic groups …

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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education

Heckman, James J.; Li, Xuesong - 2021

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

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel; Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, … - 2021

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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