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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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Interpreting the evidence on life cycle skill formation
Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; … - 2005
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Older siblings' contributions to young child's cognitive skills
Dai, Xianhua; Heckman, James J. - In: Economic modelling 35 (2013), pp. 235-248
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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio - 2005
analysis is the concept that childhood has more than one stage. We formalize the concepts of self-productivity and … traditional debate about nature versus nurture is scientifically obsolete. Human capital investment exhibits both self-productivity … cycle (self-productivity). Early investment facilitates the productivity of later investment (complementarity). Early …
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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; … - 2021
analysis is the concept that childhood has more than one stage. We formalize the concepts of self-productivity and … traditional debate about nature versus nurture is scientifically obsolete. Human capital investment exhibits both self-productivity … cycle (self-productivity). Early investment facilitates the productivity of later investment (complementarity). Early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318381
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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; … - 2021
analysis is the concept that childhood has more than one stage. We formalize the concepts of self-productivity and … traditional debate about nature versus nurture is scientifically obsolete. Human capital investment exhibits both self-productivity … cycle (self-productivity). Early investment facilitates the productivity of later investment (complementarity). Early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223083
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Investing in our young people
Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J. - 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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Investing in Our Young People
Cunha, Flavio - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141217
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The Technology of Skill Formation
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J. - 2021
and child intervention literatures. At its core is a technology that is stage-specific and that features self productivity …
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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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