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Intergenerational and Intragenerational Externalities of the Perry Preschool Project

Heckman, James J. - 2019

This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original … participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and … lower levels of participation in crime, compared with the children of untreated participants. Impacts are especially …

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Earnings Functions and Rates of Return

Heckman, James J. - 2008

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

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Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects : The Mincer Equation and Beyond

Heckman, James J. - 2005

This paper considers the interpretation of "Mincer rates of return." We test and reject the Mincer model. It fails to track the time series of true returns. We show how repeated cross section and panel data improves the ability of analysts to estimate the ex ante and ex post marginal rate of...

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The Perry Preschoolers at Late Midlife : A Study in Design-Specific Inference

Heckman, James J. - 2019

-American children in the 1960s. We discuss the design of the experiment, compromises in and adjustments to the randomization protocol …

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The evidence on credit constraints in post-secondary schooling

Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J. - 2002

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Simple Estimators for Treatment Parameters in a Latent Variable Framework with an Application to Estimating the Returns to Schooling

Heckman, James J. - 2000

This paper derives simply computed closed-form expressions for the Average Treatment Effect (ATE), the effect of Treatment on the Treated (TT), Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE) and Marginal Treatment Effect (MTE) in a latent variable framework for both normal and non-normal models. The...

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

Heckman, James J. - 2018

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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The Non-Market Benefits of Education and Ability

Heckman, James J. - 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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A New Cost-Benefit and Rate of Return Analysis for the Perry Preschool Program : A Summary

Heckman, James J. - 2010

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The GED

Heckman, James J. - 2010

induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …

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