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Lessons from the Technology of Skill Formation

Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper discusses recent advances in our understanding of differences in human abilities and skills, their sources, and their evolution over the lifecycle.

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The GED

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

graduation gaps, and sources of wage growth. Recent work demonstrates that, through its availability and low cost, the GED also …

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Estimating Marginal Returns to Education

Carneiro, Pedro; Vytlacil, Edward; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper estimates the marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by different marginal policy changes. The recent instrumental variables literature seeks to estimate this parameter, but in general it does so only under strong assumptions that are tested and found...

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Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents

Lochner, Lance; Heckman, James J.; Taber, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

the changing wage structure, as they often move in different directions. New methods are developed and applied to estimate … estimated from our aggregate technology is consistent with the central feature of rising wage equality measured by the college …-high school wage differential and by the standard deviation of log earnings over the past 15 years. Immigration of low skill …

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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

Cunha, Flavio; Lochner, Lance; Heckman, James J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

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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Allander Series: Skill Policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...

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Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors

Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

This paper examines minority-white wage gaps. Neal and Johnson (1996) show that controlling for ability measured in the … teenage years eliminates young adult wage gaps for all groups except for black males, for whom they eliminate 70% of the gap … attainment at the age the test is taken reduces the power of measured ability to shrink wage gaps for blacks, but not for other …

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