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...Our results are robust to matched sample analysis, Heckman two-stage selection, alternate model specifications....
...Replace “Jesuit” with “economist”, and you’ll fairly capture the state-of-the-art economic knowledge of the importance of early childhood education....
...James Heckman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who is the intellectual father of the early-childhood movement, estimates that for every dollar put into the famous Perry Preschool in 1960s Michigan, the...
...James Heckman, the Nobel-winning Chicago economist, says these skills will help the child learn, and tend to translate into everything from larger incomes to avoiding jail....
...Tough quotes James Heckman, an economist at the University of Chicago, whose work shows that the ability to delay gratification has big knock-on benefits “in college, in the workplace, and in life generally...
...Heckman also notes that early-childhood investment entails no trade-offs: it boosts future health, productivity and equality, while also reducing crime. Nonetheless, societies scrimp on these years....
...(Some claim that Heckman’s paper is a parody of sloppy statistical practice. I couldn’t possibly comment.) Heckman observes that “the empirical conclusion from this analysis is important....
...Jim Heckman, the former chief strategy officer of Fox Interactive Media – and the architect of the MySpace-Google deal – says blaming News Corp for the site’s demise is “an anecdotal smokescreen....
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