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Title: Investing in Our Young People
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Heckman, James J. Cunha, Flavio |
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Investing in Our Young People Working Paper, University of Chicago, November 2006. Also: http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/061115.education.pdf Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Cognitive Development; Family Influences; Family Resources; Family Studies; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Motor and Social Development (MSD); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Racial Differences; Temperament Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. An econometric analysis of data from the landmark National Longitudinal Study of Youth, 1979 (NLSY79) to determine the most effective way to invest in our young people. Heckman and Cunha identified low-achieving white girls from the 1979 study who later became mothers of boys. Then they examined in detail the "investments" in cognitive and non-cognitive skills that the mothers' children had received, particularly family investments. This paper develops econometric models of skill formation that distill the essence of recent empirical findings from the literature on child development. The goal is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a large empirical literature, for guiding the next generation of empirical studies, and for formulating factually based policy. |
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Bibliography Citation
Heckman, James J. and Flavio Cunha. "Investing in Our Young People." Working Paper, University of Chicago, November 2006. |