Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies?

By James J. Heckman, Alan B. Krueger. 2004

208 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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Citations in the corpus

• Racial Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap (2007, unknown): “Recent work (e.g., Heckman and Carneiro, 2003; Cunha et al., 2006; Neal and Johnson, 1996) has shown that the academic achievement of children is strongly correlated with the cognitive ability of their parents, and that cognitive ability is a key determinant of earnings.”
• The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling (2002, unknown): “An appeal to borrowing 14 The take-up rate on Pell Grants and Perkins Loans targeted towards students from low income families is low (Orfield, 1992).”
• Is Early Learning Really More Productive? The Effect of School Starting Age on School and Labor Market Performance (2005, unknown): “The relative magnitudes of the returns involved have led some authors to propose a reallocation of public spending from older to younger persons (for example Carneiro and Heckman, 2003).”