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This paper examines the case for randomized controlled trials in economics. I revisit my previous paper "Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation" and update its message. I present a brief summary of the history of randomization in economics. I identify two waves of enthusiasm for the method...
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because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …
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The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children is an equitable and efficient policy with large returns in adulthood. Yet little is known about the mechanisms involved in producing these long-term effects. This paper presents...
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The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children is an equitable and efficient policy with large returns in adulthood. Yet little is known about the mechanisms involved in producing these long-term effects. This paper presents...
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The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children is an equitable and efficient policy with large returns in adulthood. Yet little is known about the mechanisms involved in producing these long-term effects. This paper presents...
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beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
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This paper estimates gender differences in life-cycle impacts across multiple domains of an influential enriched early … impacts of the program on promoting or alleviating population differences in outcomes by gender. For many outcomes, boys … phenomenon is not found for girls. We investigate the sources of the gender differentials in impacts. …
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(PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC). There are pronounced gender effects strongly favoring boys, although …
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This paper organizes and synthesizes the literature on early childhood education and childcare. In it, we go beyond …
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