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Papers on Early Childhood Research

 

BulletAlmlund, Mathilde, Angela Lee Duckworth, James J. Heckman, and Timothy Kautz. (2011). "Personality Psychology and Economics," In Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 4, E. Hanushek, S. Machin, and L. Woessman, eds. Amsterdam: Elsevier. pp. 1-181. Web Appendix.

bulletBorghans, Lex; Duckworth, Angela Lee; Heckman, James J. and ter Weel, Bas. (2008). "The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits," Journal of Human Resources, 43(4): 972-1059. Web appendix.

BulletBorghans, Lex, Bart H. H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman, and John Eric Humphries. (2011). "Identification Problems in Personality Psychology," Identity and Psychology, 51:315-320.

bulletBorghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Heckman, James J.; and Meijers, Huub. (2009). "Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion." Journal of the European Economic Association, 7(2-3): 649-658.

Carneiro, Pedro and Heckman, James J. (2003). " Human Capital Policy," in Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies?, James J. Heckman, Alan B. Krueger and Benjamin M. Friedman, editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Cunha, Flavio and Heckman, James J. (2006). "Investing in Our Young People," Unpublished manuscript, University of Chicago, Department of Economics.

bulletCunha, Flavio and Heckman, James J. (2007). "The Technology of Skill Formation,"American Economic Review, 97(2): 31-47. Web appendix.

bulletCunha, Flavio and Heckman, James J. (2008). "Formulating, Identifying and Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation."Journal of Human Resources, 43(4): 738-782. Web appendix.

bulletCunha, Flavio and Heckman, James J. (2009). "The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development," Journal of the European Economic Association, 7(2-3): 320-364.

Cunha, Flavio, Heckman, James J., Lochner, Lance J. and Masterov, Dimitriy V. (2006). " Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation ," In Handbook of the Economics of Education, edited by E. Hanushek and F. Welch. Amsterdam: North Holland, Chapter 12, pp. 697-812.

bulletCunha, Flavio, James J. Heckman and Susanne Schennach. (2010). "Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation," Econometrica, 78(3): 883-931.

Heckman, James J. (2006). "Catch 'em Young: Investing in Disadvantaged Young Children is Both Fair and Efficient." Wall Street Journal, January 10, A14.

Heckman, James, J. (2006). "Investing in Disadvantaged Young Children is Both Fair and Efficient," Presented to the Committee for Economic Development, the Pew Charitable Trusts, PNC Financial Services Group, New York City, January 10.

bulletHeckman, James J. (2007). "The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(33):13250-13255.

bulletHeckman, James J. (2008). "Schools, Skills and Synapses," Economic Inquiry, 46(3): 289-324.

bulletHeckman, James J. (2008). "The growing polarisation of American society and its implications for productivity: Schools, Skills and Synapses," CEPR Policy Research VOX Report. August 25, 2008.

Heckman, James J. (2006). " Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children ," Science, 312(5782): 1900-1902.

bulletHeckman, James J. (2011). "The American Family in Black & White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality," Daedalus, 140(2): 70-89.

bulletHeckman, James J. and LaFontaine, Paul A. (2008). "Educated in America: College graduates and high school dropouts: The declining American high school graduation rate: Evidence, sources, and consequences," CEPR Policy Research VOX Report. February 13, 2008.

Heckman James J. and Masterov, Dimitriy V. (2007). "The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children."Review of Agricultural Economics 29(3): 446-493.

bulletHeckman, James J., Moon, Seong Hyeok, Pinto, Rodrigo, Savelyev, Peter A. and Yavitz, Adam Q. (2010). "Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented: A Reexamination of the Evidence from the HighScope Perry Preschool Program." Quantitative Economics 1(1): 1-46. Web appendix.

bulletHeckman, James J., Moon, Seong Hyeok, Pinto, Rodrigo, Savelyev, Peter A. and Yavitz, Adam Q. (2010). "The Rate of Return to the HighScope Perry Preschool Program." Journal of Public Economics 94(1-2): 114-128.

bulletHeckman, James, Pinto, Rodrigo, Shaikh, Azeem and Yavitz, Adam (2011). "Inference with Imperfect Randomization: The Case of the Perry Preschool Program." National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper, 16935.

Heckman, James J. and Rubinstein, Yona (2001). "The Importance of Noncognitive Skills: Lessons from the GED Testing Program," American Economic Review, 91(2): 145-149

Heckman, James J., Stixrud, Jora and Urzua, Sergio (2006). "The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior," Journal of Labor Economics, 24(3): 411-482.

Knudsen, Eric I., Heckman, James J., Cameron, Judy and Shonkoff,
Jack P. (2006). "Building America's Future Workforce: Economic, Neurobiological and
Behavioral Perspectives on Investment in Human Skill Development
," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(27): 10155-10162.

 

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