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Chapter 9. The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 423-483). 2011
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight-hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost...
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Symposium on child development and parental investment : introduction
Francesconi, Marco; Heckman, James J. - 2016
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Early health shocks, intrahousehold resource allocation, and child outcomes
Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - 2014
health shocks negatively affect child human capital, including health, education, and socioemotional skills. Compensating …
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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes
Yi, Junjian - 2014
health shocks negatively affect child human capital, including health, education, and socioemotional skills. Compensating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039591
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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; … - 2021
This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...
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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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Intergenerational transmission of inequality : maternal endowments, investments, and birth outcomes
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - 2023
endowments and investments (education and smoking in pregnancy) on the probability of having a baby who is small for gestational … maternal education and smoking in pregnancy, and investigate whether women endowed with different traits have different returns …. We find that maternal cognition affects birth outcomes primarily through maternal education, that personality traits …
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Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : Maternal Endowments, Investments, and Birth Outcomes
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
endowments and investments (education and smoking in pregnancy) on the probability of having a baby who is small for gestational … maternal education and smoking in pregnancy, and investigate whether women endowed with different traits have different returns …. We find that maternal cognition affects birth outcomes primarily through maternal education, that personality traits …
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Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment : Introduction
Francesconi, Marco - 2016
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Fostering and measuring skills : interventions that improve character and cognition
Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - 2013
This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills – personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...
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