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Symposium on child development and parental investment : introduction

Francesconi, Marco; Heckman, James J. - 2016

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Returns to education : the causal effects of education on earnings, health and smoking

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2016

This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in … differentials. For some, there are substantial causal effects of education at all stages of schooling. …

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Lessons from Denmark about inequality and social mobility

Heckman, James J.; Landersø, Rasmus - 2021

Many American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with low levels of income inequality and high levels of income mobility across generations. It has in place many social policies now advocated for adoption in the U.S. Despite generous Danish social policies, family...

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Using matching, instrumental variables and control functions to estimate economic choice models

Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Estimation of dynamic discrete choice models by maximum likelihood and the simulated method of moments

Eisenhauer, Philipp; Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014

discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418037

Evaluating marginal policy changes and the average effect of treatment for individuals at the margin

Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J.; Vytlacil, Edward - 2009

This paper develops methods for evaluating marginal policy changes. We characterize how the effects of marginal policy changes depend on the direction of the policy change, and show that marginal policy effects are fundamentally easier to identify and to estimate than conventional treatment...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879358

The Scandinavian fantasy : the sources of intergenerational mobility in Denmark and the U.S.

Landersø, Rasmus; Heckman, James J. - 2016

because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …

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A note on adapting propensity score matching and selection models to choice based samples

Heckman, James J.; Todd, Petra - 2009

The probability of selection into treatment plays an important role in matching and selection models. However, this … note establishes that the selection and matching procedures can be implemented using propensity scores fit on choice … monotonically related to the odds ratio of the true propensity scores. -- Choice-based sampling ; matching models ; propensity …

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The evidence on credit constraints in post-secondary schooling

Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J. - 2002

This paper examines the family income-college enrollment relationship and the evidence on credit constraints in post-secondary schooling. We distinguish short-run liquidity constraints from the long-term factors that promote cognitive and noncognitive ability. Long-run factors crystallized in...

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What grades and achievement tests measure

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Heckman, James J.; … - 2016

Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, yet the correlations among them are far from perfect. This paper uses a variety of data sets to show that personality and IQ predict grades and scores on achievement tests. Personality...

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