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Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James Joseph - 2010

This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. Noncognitive skills play a fundamental role in successful lives. The dynamics of skill formation reveal...

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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. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at different stages of childhood. We estimate the elasticity of substitution between investments in one period and...

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Fertility Effects of Child Benefits

Riphahn, Regina T.; Wiynck, Frederik - 2017

benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied by … household income and the number of children. We use these heterogeneities to identify their causal effects on fertility in a … fertility effects for higher as opposed to lower income couples deciding on a second birth. …

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Female labor supply and parental leave benefits: the causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten …

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Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits: The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten …

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Economic, neurobiological and behavioral perspectives on building America's future workforce

Knudsen, Eric I.; Heckman, James Joseph; Cameron, Judy L.; … - 2006

A growing proportion of the U.S. workforce will have been raised in disadvantaged environments that are associated with relatively high proportions of individuals with diminished cognitive and social skills. A cross-disciplinary examination of research in economics, developmental psychology, and...

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Cohort Effects in the Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in Germany: An Analysis of Census Data

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2001

Even though second generation immigrants make up ever increasing population shares in industrialized countries we know little about their social integration and wellbeing. This study focuses on the educational attainment of German born children of immigrants. Their schooling success still lags...

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Kindergarten enrollment and the intergenerational transmission of education

Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children enroll in kindergarten. Taking advantage of heterogeneity across cantons we find that early kindergarten enrollment significantly increases educational mobility.

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Using Matching, Instrumental Variables and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models

Heckman, James Joseph; Navarro-Lozano, Salvador - 2003

This paper investigates four topics. (1) It examines the different roles played by the propensity score (probability of selection) in matching, instrumental variable and control functions methods. (2) It contrasts the roles of exclusion restrictions in matching and selection models. (3) It...

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The productivity argument for investing in young children

Heckman, James Joseph; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2007

This paper presents a productivity argument for investing in disadvantaged young children. For such investment, there is no equity-efficiency tradeoff.

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