The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children. NBER Working Paper No. 13016.

By James J. Heckman, Dimitriy V. Masterov. 2007

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Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty (2009, neutral): “Какими могут быть последствия продолжительной неверной информированности? например, если отдача от инвестиций в школьное образование недооценивается, это может привести к неэффективно низкому уровню инвестирования В последнее время лауреат нобелевской премии по экономике джеймс Хекман и многие…”
The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits (2008, positive): “As noted in the introduction, evidence from the Perry Preschool study suggests that Perry did not raise IQ, but did promote a variety of positive behaviors (see Heckman and Masterov 2007).”
Field experiments in labor economics (2010, background): “development, and their health status (Grantham-McGregor et al., 1991; Heckman and Masterov, 2005; Engle et al., 2007; Grantham-McGregor et al., 2007).”
Malleability, plasticity, and individuality: How children learn and develop in context1 (2019, background): “Consistent with the notion that “skills beget skills” (Heckman & Masterov, 2007, p. 447), the web metaphor recognizes the interdependent, hierarchical character of skill construction, with complex skills emerging as earlier skills are integrated into an inclusive whole.”
Creating Emotionally Intelligent Schools With RULER (2016, background): “Nobel laureate and economist James Heckman has highlighted the return on investment in early intervention to improve children’s social and emotional competencies for both proximal (e.g., grade repetition) and distal (e.g., employment) outcomes (Heckman & Masterov, 2007).”
How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills (2013, neutral): “Heckman and Masterov (2007) point out that investments in children from families with a lower socio-economic status are among the rare policies that do not involve a trade-off between efficiency and fairness.”
Household Choices and Child Development (2010, background): “The sequence {ηt} T+1 t=1 is defined (backwards-) recursively as ηT+1 = ψα4 ηT = α4 + βδ6,T ηT+1 ... ηt = α4 + βδ6,tηt+1 ... η1 = α4 + βδ6,2η2. ηt is the period tmarginal utility of (log) child quality to the household: ηt = ∂Vt(St)/∂ ln kt. ηt reflects both the present period flow marginal utility…”