Abstract

Education is a major determinant of socioeconomic success. Yet when properly counted the U.S. is producing proportionately more high school dropouts than it did thirty years ago. Increases in college attendance and completion have been uneven across family income, race and ethnic groups. The educational gap between the haves and the have not has widened. This project studies the sources of non-cognitive ability over the life cycle with an eye towards understanding which interventions at what ages are likely to be effective. It also examines the life cycle socioeconomic consequences of education and cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. New methods for studying life cycle processes are developed and applied. ? ?

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01HD043411-04
Application #
7049377
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1-EDC-1 (02))
Program Officer
Evans, V Jeffrey
Project Start
2003-04-15
Project End
2008-03-31
Budget Start
2006-04-01
Budget End
2007-03-31
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
2006
Total Cost
$350,128
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
National Bureau of Economic Research
Department
Type
DUNS #
054552435
City
Cambridge
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02138

  Publications

Heckman, James J; Humphries, John Eric; Lafontaine, Paul A et al. (2012) Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out. J Labor Econ 30:495-520
Heckman, James J; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo et al. (2010) The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program. J Public Econ 94:114-128
Heckman, James J; Lafontaine, Paul A (2010) THE AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATE: TRENDS AND LEVELS. Rev Econ Stat 92:244-262
Heckman, James J; Schmierer, Daniel; Urzua, Sergio (2010) Testing the Correlated Random Coefficient Model. J Econom 158:177-203
Heckman, James J; Urzúa, Sergio (2010) Comparing IV With Structural Models: What Simple IV Can and Cannot Identify. J Econom 156:27-37
Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J; Vytlacil, Edward (2010) Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin. Econometrica 78:377-394
Heckman, James; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo et al. (2010) Analyzing social experiments as implemented: A reexamination of the evidence from the HighScope Perry Preschool Program. Quant Econom 1:1-46
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James; Schennach, Susanne (2010) Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation. Econometrica 78:883-931
Heckman, James J; Schmierer, Daniel (2010) Tests of Hypotheses Arising In the Correlated Random Coefficient Model. Econ Model 27:1355-1367
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J (2009) The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development. J Eur Econ Assoc 7:320-364

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