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Title: The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children
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Heckman, James J. Masterov, Dimitriy V. |
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The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children Review of Agricultural Economics 29,3 (Fall 2007): 446-493. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4624854 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online Keyword(s): Childbearing; Children, Academic Development; Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Home Environment; Crime; Family Structure; International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS); Skill Formation This lecture was given as the T.W. Schultz Award Lecture at the Allied Social Sciences Association annual meeting, Chicago, January 5–7, 2007. This article was not subject to the journal's standard refereeing process. Copyright 2007 American Agricultural Economics Association. [From pdf at: http://jenni.uchicago.edu/Invest/FILES/dugger_2004-12-02_dvm.pdf.] This paper presents a productivity argument for investing in disadvantaged young children. For such investment, there is no equity-efficiency tradeoff. The web appendix for this paper can be downloaded from http://jenni.uchicago.edu/Invest/. |
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Heckman, James J. and Dimitriy V. Masterov. "The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children." Review of Agricultural Economics 29,3 (Fall 2007): 446-493.
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