Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies?

By Richard V. Adkisson. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program (2019, neutral): “Carneiro and Heckman (2003) summarizes the evidence from these programs as improving motivation and social skills, while reducing crime and related behavior.”
No Child Left Behind: Subsidized Child Care and Children's Long-Run Outcomes (2011, background): “Going one step further, Carneiro and Heckman (2004) argue that investments in human capital have dynamic complementarities, implying that learning begets learning.”
Workplace Training in Europe (2005, positive): “In this section, we replicate the empirical study by Carneiro and Heckman, 2004, on the relationship between family background and training provision using data for Europe drawn from the European Community Household Panel.”
Labor Market Returns to an Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention in Jamaica (2014, background): “charge photogeneration has been investigated in several technologically relevant materials, such as blends of polyphenylene-vinylene (5, 6), polythiophene (7, 8), or low band gap polymers (9, 10)”
Widening participation in higher education: analysis using linked administrative data (2008, positive): “…literature that has examined the factors influencing educational achievement of different types of pupils, particularly in terms of the role of socio-economic background (Blanden and Gregg, 2004; Carneiro and Heckman, 2002, 2003; Gayle et al., 2002; Meghir and Palme, 2005; Haveman and Wolfe, 1995).”
Preschool and Child Care Expulsion and Suspension: Rates and Predictors in One State (2006, background): “…levels of intensity and quality, offers many well-documented benefits to participants in terms of latter educational achievement and lifelong success (for reviews, see Barnett, 1998; Guralnick, 1997; Heckman & Krueger, 2004; Karoly et al., 1998; Yoshikawa, 1995; Zigler, Taussig, & Black, 1992).”
Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design (2005, neutral): “…on high school completion by 2000 for this cohort is if Head Start affects the odds of receiving a regular diploma rather than a GED, as does Perry Preschool [Schweinhart et al., 2005], which would be important because GED-holders do not earn as much as graduates [Carniero and Heckman, 2003].”
Household Choices and Child Development (2010, positive): “Recent surveys have shown that children’s cognitive and non cognitive outcomes are largely determined early in life (Carneiro and Heckman 2003,Ermisch and Francesconi 2005).”
The Non-Cognitive Returns to Class Size (2008, neutral): “For example, the estimated direct cost of a class-size reduction would understate the true cost of this investment to the extent that the tax mechanisms used to raise this revenue generate deadweight loss (Summers, 2003).”
Good for the Soul: the relationship between work, wellbeing and psychological capital (2009, background): “Since 2000, research in the field has continued both in Australia and internationally (see, for example: Creed and Machin, 2002; Creed and Muller, 2003; Flatau, Galea and Petridis, 2000; Heckman et al., 2003, 2005; Dockery, 2004, 2006).”
Multiple Inference and Gender Differences in the Effects of Early Intervention: A Reevaluation of the Abecedarian, Perry Preschool, and Early Training Projects (2008, background): “These issues—combined with a puzzling pattern of results in which early test score gains disappear within a few years and are followed a decade later by significant effects on adult outcomes—have created serious doubts about the validity of the results (Currie and Thomas 1995; Krueger 2003).”