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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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Measuring Knowledge

Heckman, James J.; Zhou, Jin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Empirical studies in the economics of education, the measurement of skill gaps across demographic groups, and the impacts of interventions on skill formation rely on psychometrically validated test scores that record the proportion of items correctly answered. Test scores are sometimes taken as...

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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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Estimating Marginal Returns to Education

Carneiro, Pedro - 2010

-defined marginal policy changes with IV estimates of the return to schooling. Some marginal policy changes inducing students into …

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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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The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James J. - 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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