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According to Wikipedia, James Joseph Heckman is a Nobel Memorial in Economic Sciences Prize-winning American economist at the University of Chicago, where he is The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy; Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development ; and Co-Director of Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group. He is also Professor of Law at the Law School, a senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Sample selection bias as a specification error (1979) (27305)
The Common Structure of Statistical Models of Truncation, Sample Selection and Limited Dependent Variables and a Simple Estimator for Such Models (1976) (5393)
Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme (1997) (5235)
Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator (1998) (3818)
The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior (2006) (3775)
The Economics and Econometrics of Active Labor Market Programs (1999) (3373)
Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children (2006) (3113)
A Method for Minimizing the Impact of Distributional Assumptions in Econometric Models for Duration Data (1984) (2961)
Dummy Endogenous Variables in a Simultaneous Equation System (1977) (2693)
Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data (1998) (2607)
The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits (2008) (2096)
Shadow prices, market wages, and labor supply (1974) (1932)
Formulating, Identifying and Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation (2008) (1849)
Human Capital Policy (2003) (1824)
Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation (2005) (1791)
Policies to Foster Human Capital (1999) (1739)
The Importance of Noncognitive Skills: Lessons from the GED Testing Program (2001) (1426)
Personality Psychology and Economics (2011) (1418)
The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children (2007) (1409)
Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes (2012) (1307)
Hard Evidence on Soft Skills (2012) (1305)
The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling (2002) (1150)
Life Cycle Schooling and Dynamic Selection Bias: Models and Evidence for Five Cohorts of American Males (1998) (1104)
The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program (2009) (1101)
Schools, Skills, and Synapses (2008) (1096)
Lab Experiments Are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences (2009) (1054)
Female labor supply: A survey (1986) (1046)
The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Black, Hispanic, and White Males (2001) (995)
Assessing the Case for Social Experiments (1995) (995)
Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents (1998) (963)
Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity (2006) (941)
Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Data: Alternative methods for evaluating the impact of interventions (1985) (938)
Does Unemployment Cause Future Unemployment? Definitions, Questions and Answers from a Continuous Time Model of Heterogeneity and State Dependence. (1980) (923)
Alternative methods for evaluating the impact of interventions: An overview (1985) (914)
Early Childhood Investments Substantially Boost Adult Health (2014) (906)
Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond (2005) (892)
Heterogeneity and State Dependence (1981) (864)
Instrumental Variables: A Study of Implicit Behavioral Assumptions Used in Making Program Evaluations. (1997) (849)
Making the Most out of Programme Evaluations and Social Experiments: Accounting for Heterogeneity in Programme Impacts (1997) (847)
Choosing Among Alternative Nonexperimental Methods for Estimating the Impact of Social Programs: the Case of Manpower Training (1989) (846)
A Life-Cycle Model of Earnings, Learning, and Consumption (1976) (808)
Detecting Discrimination (1998) (795)
The Empirical Content of the Roy Model (1990) (762)
Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success (2014) (759)
Econometric Tools for Analyzing Market Outcomes (2007) (753)
A Life Cycle Model of Female Labour Supply (1980) (732)
Web Appendix for \Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation" (2010) (721)
Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies? (2004) (720)
The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility (2014) (719)
The Nonequivalence of High School Equivalents (1991) (686)
Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion (2009) (683)
Identification and Estimation of Hedonic Models (2003) (663)
Econometric duration analysis (1984) (651)
What Has Been Learned about Labor Supply in the Past Twenty Years (1993) (644)
Micro Data, Heterogeneity, and the Evaluation of Public Policy: Nobel Lecture (2001) (644)
Heterogeneity, Aggregation, and Market Wage Functions: An Empirical Model of Self-Selection in the Labor Market (1985) (641)
Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Data (1985) (639)
Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions (2003) (637)
The American High School Graduation Rate: Trends and Levels (2007) (625)
Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs, Part I: Causal Models, Structural Models and Econometric Policy Evaluation (2007) (618)
Local instrumental variables and latent variable models for identifying and bounding treatment effects. (1999) (613)
Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation. NBER Working Paper No. 15664. (2010) (605)
Labor market returns to an early childhood stimulation intervention in Jamaica (2014) (562)
Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice (2003) (555)
Estimating Marginal Returns to Education (2010) (541)
Micro data and general equilibrium models (1999) (536)
New Methods for Analyzing Structural Models of Labor Force Dynamics (1982) (532)
Investing in early human development: timing and economic efficiency. (2009) (529)
The Economics of Inequality The Value of Early Childhood Education (2011) (524)
Continuous Versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks (1991) (516)
Fostering and Measuring Skills: Interventions that Improve Character and Cognition (2013) (509)
Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error (with an Application to the Estimation of Labor Supply Functions) (1977) (488)
The relationship between wages and income and the timing and spacing of births: evidence from Swedish longitudinal data. (1990) (451)
THE EDUCATION-HEALTH GRADIENT. (2010) (450)
Handbook of Econometrics (1985) (442)
Effects of Child-Care Programs on Women's Work Effort (1974) (439)
Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean (2003) (439)
Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs, Part II: Using the Marginal Treatment Effect to Organize Alternative Econometric Estimators to Evaluate Social Programs, and to Forecast their Effects in New Environments (2007) (434)
The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development (2009) (432)
Linear Probability Models of the Demand for Attributes with an Empirical Application to Estimating the Preferences of Legislators (1996) (432)
The Urban Institute Audit Studies: Their Methods and Findings (1993) (425)
Are Unemployment and Out of the Labor Force Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States? (1982) (423)
A Beta-logistic Model for the Analysis of Sequential Labor Force Participation by Married Women (1975) (402)
Building Bridges between Structural and Program Evaluation Approaches to Evaluating Policy (2010) (401)
The Empirical Foundations of Calibration (1996) (398)
Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables: Comment (1996) (384)
The Pre‐programme Earnings Dip and the Determinants of Participation in a Social Programme. Implications for Simple Programme Evaluation Strategies (1999) (381)
Chapter 12 Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation (2006) (366)
Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation (1991) (354)
Three observations on wages and measured cognitive ability (2001) (353)
Earnings Functions and Rates of Return (2008) (349)
Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented: A Reexamination of the Evidence from the Highscope Perry Preschool Program (2010) (345)
The identifiability of the competing risks model (1989) (333)
Instrumental Variables Methods for the Correlated Random Coefficient Model: Estimating the Average Rate of Return to Schooling When the Return is Correlated with Schooling (1998) (331)
General Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tuition Policy (1998) (329)
Life Cycle Consumption and Labor Supply: An Explanation of the Relationship Between Income and Consumption Over the Life Cycle (1974) (328)
Comparing IV with Structural Models: What Simple IV Can and Cannot Identify (2009) (324)
The Estimation of Income and Substitution Effects in a Model of Family Labor Supply (1971) (311)
Models for the Analysis of Labor Force Dynamics (1982) (309)
Human Capital Pricing Equations with an Application to Estimating the Effect of Schooling Quality on Earnings (1996) (303)
Investing in Our Young People (2010) (301)
An Investigation of the Labor Market Earnings of Panamanian Males Evaluating the Sources of Inequality (1986) (299)
Alternative methods for solving the problem of selection bias in evaluating the impact of treatments (1986) (289)
Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs, Part III: Distributional Treatment Effects, Dynamic Treatment Effects, Dynamic Discrete Choice, and General Equilibrium Policy Evaluation (2007) (286)
Using Longitudinal Data to Estimate Age, Period and Cohort Effects in Earnings Equations (1985) (282)
Empirical Evidence on the Functional Form of the Earnings-Schooling Relationship (1974) (280)
The Identifiability of the Proportional Hazard Model (1984) (275)
1. The Scientific Model of Causality (2005) (273)
Local Instrumental Variables (2000) (270)
Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors* (2003) (267)
Lessons from the Bell Curve (1995) (262)
Econometric Causality (2008) (260)
Estimating treatment effects for discrete outcomes when responses to treatment vary: an application to Norwegian vocational rehabilitation programs (2005) (257)
Policy-Relevant Treatment Effects (2001) (257)
Four Parameters of Interest in the Evaluation of Social Programs (2001) (257)
Identification of Treatment Effects Using Control Functions in Models with Continuous, Endogenous Treatment and Heterogeneous Effects (2008) (255)
Returns to Education: The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health, and Smoking (2016) (246)
Using matching, instrumental variables and control functions to estimate economic choice models (2004) (237)
Tax Policy and Human Capital Formation (1998) (234)
Determining the Impact of Federal Antidiscrimination Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks: a Study of South Carolina (1989) (227)
Identifying the Hand of the Past: Distinguishing State Dependence from Heterogeneity (1991) (225)
Evaluating the Welfare State (1998) (217)
A Test for Subadditivity of the Cost Function with an Application to the Bell System (1986) (215)
China's human capital investment (2005) (215)
Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five (2018) (214)
Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College (2003) (210)
Sources of selection bias in evaluating social programs: an interpretation of conventional measures and evidence on the effectiveness of matching as a program evaluation method. (1996) (210)
Estimation of a Stochastic Model of Reproduction: An Econometric Approach (1974) (209)
Chapter 7 Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond (2006) (207)
Life Cycle Schooling and Dynamic Selection Bias: Models and Evidence for Five Cohorts (1998) (202)
The Case for Investing in Disadvantaged Young Children (2008) (202)
Substitution and Dropout Bias in Social Experiments: A Study of an Influential Social Experiment (2000) (198)
Adverse selection and moral hazard in insurance: Can dynamic data help to distinguish? (2003) (194)
Does Measured School Quality Really Matter? An Examination of the Earnings-Quality Relationship (1995) (192)
Use of instrumental variables in the presence of heterogeneity and self-selection: an application to treatments of breast cancer patients. (2007) (190)
The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation (2007) (187)
Identifying Hedonic Models (2002) (178)
Identification Problems in Personality Psychology (2011) (176)
What grades and achievement tests measure (2016) (170)
Transcriptional modulation of the developing immune system by early life social adversity (2012) (167)
The Importance of Bundling in a Gorman-Lancaster Model of Earnings (1987) (165)
Giving Kids a Fair Chance (2013) (163)
Assessing the Performance of Performance Standards in Public Bureaucracies (1997) (161)
The Economics of Child Well-Being (2012) (161)
Bias‐Corrected Estimates of GED Returns (2006) (161)
Understanding the Early Origins of the Education–Health Gradient (2010) (160)
The Pre-Program Earnings Dip and the Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Implications for Simple Program Evaluation Strategies (1999) (159)
The myth of achievement tests : the GED and the role of character in American life (2013) (158)
Population heterogeneity in demographic models. (1982) (157)
Invest in the Very Young. (2002) (155)
Randomization as an Instrumental Variable (1995) (151)
Personality and economics: Overview and proposed framework (2011) (149)
Self-Selection and the Distribution of Hourly Wages (1990) (142)
Early Health Shocks, Intra�?Household Resource Allocation and Child Outcomes (2014) (142)
The Scandinavian Fantasy: The Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the US (2016) (140)
The Life-Cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program (2016) (139)
Cognitive Ability, Wages, and Meritocracy (1996) (138)
The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviour (2016) (136)
Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies (2002) (135)
Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs (2013) (134)
Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Nonadditive Hedonic Models (2009) (134)
New Evidence on the Timing and Spacing of Births (1985) (133)
Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin (2009) (133)
Understanding the Role of Cognitive Ability in Accounting for the Recent Rise in the Economic Return to Education (1998) (132)
The developmental origins of health. (2012) (132)
Corrigendum on A Life Cycle Model of Female Labour Supply (1982) (131)
Advances in Econometrics: The identification problem in econometric models for duration data (1983) (129)
The Government&Apos;S Impact on the Labor Market Status of Black Americans: A Critical Review (1977) (128)
Primate evidence on the late health effects of early-life adversity (2012) (124)
Instrumental Variables, Selection Models, and Tight Bounds on the Average Treatment Effect (2000) (123)
Selection Bias and Self-selection (2010) (123)
Using Goodness of Fit and Other Criteria to Choose among Competing Duration Models: A Case Study of Hutterite Data (1987) (121)
Understanding Black-White Wage Differentials, 1960-1990 (2000) (121)
Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Data: Social science duration analysis (1985) (120)
The relationship between treatment parameters within a latent variable framework (2000) (117)
Bayesian Exploratory Factor Analysis (2014) (116)
The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings and Health (2015) (115)
Identifying and Estimating the Distributions of Ex Post and Ex Ante Returns to Schooling (2007) (114)
A Simultaneous Equations Linear Probability Model (1985) (113)
The American Family in Black & White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality (2011) (113)
What Do Bureaucrats Do? The Effects of Performance Standards and Bureaucratic Preferences on Acceptance into the Jtpa Program (1996) (105)
A Note on Adapting Propensity Score Matching and Selection Models to Choice Based Samples (2009) (105)
Chapter 8 Micro data and general equilibrium models (1999) (102)
ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF LONGITUDINAL DATA (1986) (102)
Estimates of a Human Capital Production Function Embedded in a Life-Cycle Model of Labor Supply (1976) (100)
Learning-by-Doing vs. On-the-Job Training: Using Variation Induced by the EITC to Distinguish between Models of Skill Formation (2002) (99)
Does the Contract Compliance Program Work? An Analysis of Chicago Data (1976) (98)
Role of Income and Family Influence on Child Outcomes (2008) (96)
A Partial Survey of Recent Research on the Labor Supply of Women (1978) (93)
Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation: A 20-Year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica (2013) (90)
Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics (2011) (88)
Child Development and Parental Investment: Introduction (2016) (87)
New Methods for Analyzing Individual Event Histories (1982) (87)
The Ged (2010) (85)
Simple Estimators for Treatment Parameters in a Latent Variable Framework with an Application to Estimating the Returns to Schooling (2000) (83)
Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of a Prototypical Early Childhood Program (2017) (81)
General Equilibrium Cost Benefit Analysis of Education and Tax Policies (1999) (80)
Understanding What Instrumental Variables Estimate : Estimating Marginal and Average Returns to Education (2003) (80)
Do We Need Experimental Data To Evaluate the Impact of Manpower Training On Earnings? (1987) (80)
Testing the Correlated Random Coefficient Model (2009) (79)
A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF INEQUALITY (2006) (78)
Intergenerational and Intragenerational Externalities of the Perry Preschool Project (2019) (78)
Treatment Effects for Discrete Outcomes When Responses to Treatment Vary Among Observationally Identical Persons: An Application to Norwegian .. (2000) (77)
Micro Data, Heterogeneity and the Evaluation of Public Policy Part 1 (2001) (77)
Instrumental Variables: A Study of Implicit Behavioral Assumptions in One Widely Used Estimator (1997) (76)
Policies to Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico (2010) (75)
Lessons from the Technology of Skill Formation (2004) (75)
A New Cost-Benefit and Rate of Return Analysis for the Perry Preschool Program: A Summary (2010) (75)
The Evolution of Inequality, Heterogeneity and Uncertainty in Labor Earnings in the U.S. Economy (2007) (74)
Gender Differences in the Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program (2017) (73)
Experimental and Nonexperimental Evaluation (1996) (73)
The Schooling of Southern Blacks: The Roles of Legal Activism and Private Philanthropy, 1910-1960 (2000) (72)
Simulation and Estimation of Hedonic Models (2003) (70)
Education, Health and Wages (2014) (70)
Econometric mixture models and more general models for unobservables in duration analysis (1994) (70)
Doing It Right: Job Training and Education. (1999) (69)
Intergenerational Long Term Effects of Preschool: Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model (2013) (69)
Estimating distributions of counterfactuals with an application to the returns to schooling and measurement of the effect of uncertainty on schooling choice (2003) (66)
The effects of educational choices on labor market, health, and social outcomes (2010) (65)
Measuring Investment in Human Capital Formation: An Experimental Analysis of Early Life Outcomes (2013) (65)
Inequality in Human Capital and Endogenous Credit Constraints (2016) (64)
Investing in Our Young People. NBER Working Paper No. 16201. (2010) (64)
Estimating fecundability from data on waiting times to first conception. (1990) (63)
SUPPLEMENT TO “ESTIMATING THE TECHNOLOGY OF COGNITIVE AND NONCOGNITIVE (2010) (63)
The third birth in Sweden (1990) (62)
Human Capital Formation and General Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tax and Tuition Policy (2005) (61)
Estimating Marginal and Average Returns to Education (2006) (61)
Measuring the Effect of an Antidiscrimination Program (1974) (60)
Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe (2010) (60)
Handbook of Econometrics, Volume 7A (2001) (60)
The Identification and Economic Content of Ordered Choice Models with Stochastic Thresholds (2007) (60)
Testing the Mixture of Exponentials Hypothesis and Estimating the Mixing Distribution by the Method of Moments (1990) (60)
The Generalized Roy Model and the Cost-Benefit Analysis of Social Programs (2014) (60)
Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of an Influential Early-Childhood Program (2020) (60)
Unordered Monotonicity (2017) (58)
Instrumental Variables: A Cautionary Tale (1995) (57)
Formulating, Identifying, and Estimating the Technology for the Formation of Skills (2008) (57)
New Methods for Estimating Labor Supply Functions: A Survey (1982) (56)
Assessing Clinton&Apos;S Program on Job Training, Workfare, and Education in the Workplace (1993) (54)
Dynamic Treatment Effects. (2016) (52)
Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity (2009) (51)
Causality and Econometrics (2022) (51)
STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS, TREATMENT EFFECTS AND ECONOMETRIC POLICY (2003) (51)
Labor Supply Estimates for Public Policy Evaluation (1978) (51)
REJOINDER: natural monopoly and the Bell system: response to Charnes, Cooper, and Sueyoshi (1988) (51)
Is Job Training Oversold (1994) (51)
Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out (2008) (50)
The American Family in Black and White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality (2011) (50)
Understanding conscientiousness across the life course: an economic perspective. (2014) (50)
Instrumental variables, local instrumental variables and control functions (2002) (49)
Schools, Skills, and Synapses. NBER Working Paper No. 14064. (2008) (49)
Instrumental Variables in Models with Multiple Outcomes: The General Unordered Case (2008) (48)
Capabilities and Skills (2016) (48)
Early skill formation and the efficiency of parental investment: A randomized controlled trial of home visiting (2017) (48)
Estimating Labor Supply Functions (1972) (48)
The Perry Preschoolers at Late Midlife: A Study in Design-Specific Inference (2019) (47)
Econometrics and empirical economics (2001) (46)
The Nonmarket Benefits of Education and Ability (2017) (45)
The x[superscript]2 Goodness of Fit Statistic for Models with Parameters Estimated from Microdata (1984) (44)
EARLY ENDOWMENTS, EDUCATION AND HEALTH (2010) (43)
Flexibility and Job Creation: Lessons for Germany (2002) (43)
Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law (2013) (42)
Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education (2003) (42)
Comments on the Ashenfelter and Kydland papers (1984) (41)
Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors (2005) (41)
Some Contributions of Economics to the Study of Personality (2019) (41)
The Technology of Skill Formation. NBER Working Paper No. 12840. (2007) (41)
The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors (2015) (41)
Meritocracy in America: Wages Within and Across Occupations (1999) (40)
Introduction to A Theory of the Allocation of Time by Gary Becker* (2015) (40)
Achievement Tests and the Role of Character in American Life (2013) (40)
Matching as an econometric estimator (1998) (39)
Skill Policies for Scotland (2005) (39)
The technology and neuroscience of capacity formation (2007) (39)
The Sensitivity of Experimental Impact Estimates: Evidence from the National Jtpa Study (1997) (38)
Haavelmo and the Birth of Modern Econometrics: A Review of The History of Econometric Ideas (1992) (38)
Rejoinder: Response to Sobel (2005) (36)
Early Health Shocks, Parental Responses, and Child Outcomes (2011) (36)
An Analysis of the Memphis Nurse-Family Partnership Program (2017) (35)
Household Intertemporal Behavior: a Collective Characterization and Empirical Tests (2002) (35)
Estimating The Return to Education When It Varies Among Individuals (2001) (35)
Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Perspective (2014) (35)
Determinants of Young Male Schooling and Training Choices (1993) (34)
Causal Inference and Nonrandom Samples (1989) (34)
Nonparametric estimation of nonadditive hedonic models (2005) (34)
Interpreting The Evidence of Family Inßuence on Child Development (2003) (34)
Law and Employment (2004) (34)
Abducting Economics. (2017) (34)
Comments on Are Protective Labor Market Institutions at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Review of the Evidence by David Howell, Dean Baker, Andrew Glyn, and John Schmitt (2007) (34)
The cognitive style of nursing students: educational implications for teaching and learning. (2008) (33)
Introduction to "Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin American and the Caribbean" (2004) (33)
The Declining American High School Graduation Rate: Evidence, Sources, and Consequences (2008) (31)
Training Effects on Employment when the Training Effects are Heterogenous : an Application to Norwegian Vocational Rehabilitation Programs (1999) (30)
A dynamic model of aggregate output supply, factor demand and entry and exit for a competitive industry with heterogeneous plants (1986) (28)
Economic models of fertility dynamics: a study of Swedish fertility. (1991) (28)
An Assessment of Causal Inference in Smoking Initiation Research and a Framework for Future Research (2008) (28)
The Value of Quantitative Evidence on the Effect of the Past on the Present (1997) (28)
Dynamic Policy Analysis (2008) (28)
Chapter 32 Labor econometrics (1986) (27)
Understanding the Sources of Ethnic and Racial Wage Gaps and Their Implications for Policy (2005) (27)
Measuring the Effect of an Anti-Discrimination Program (1974) (27)
Instrumental Variables: Response to Angrist and Imbens (1999) (26)
The Schooling Quality-Earnings Relationship: Using Economic Theory to Interpret Functional Forms Consistent with the Evidence (1995) (26)
Early childhood education and crime. (2019) (26)
Sample Selection Bias as Specific Error (1979) (26)
Accounting for Dropouts in Evaluations of Social Experiments (1994) (26)
The GED. NBER Working Paper No. 16064. (2010) (26)
Inference with Imperfect Randomization: The Case of the Perry Preschool Program (2011) (25)
Forecasting Aggregate Period Specific Birth Rates: the Time Series Properties of a Microdynamic Neoclassical Model of Fertility (1989) (24)
Older Siblings' Contributions to Young Child's Cognitive Skills. (2013) (24)
Making the Most Out of Social Experiments: Reducing the Intrinsic Uncertainty in Evidence from Randomized Trials with an Application to the Jtpa Exp (1994) (23)
Conditioning, causality and policy analysis (2003) (23)
The Central Role of the South in Accounting for the Economic Progress of Black Americans (1990) (23)
Wage Subsidies and Skill Formation : A Study of the Earned Income Tax Credit (1999) (22)
of Education, Personality, and IQ on Earnings of High-Ability Men (2011) (22)
The Impact of Government on the Economic Status of Black Americans (1989) (21)
Sensitivity of self-reported noncognitive skills to survey administration conditions (2019) (20)
Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Data: Frontmatter (1985) (20)
Empirical tests of labor-market equilibrium: An evaluation (1988) (19)
Characterization of selection bias using experimental data (1998) (19)
Evaluation of the Reggio Approach to Early Education (2017) (19)
Testing for Moral Hazard on Dynamic Insurance Data (2002) (19)
Causal Parameters , Structural Equations , Treatment E ff ects and Randomized Evaluations of Social Programs (2003) (18)
The Principles Underlying Evaluation Estimators with an Application to Matching (2008) (18)
Estimating Marginal Returns to Education. NBER Working Paper No. 16474. (2010) (18)
The Scandinavian Fantasy: The Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the U.S (2016) (18)
The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education (2021) (18)
Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Random Coefficients in Nonlinear Economic Models (2010) (17)
Use of instrumental variables in the presence of heterogeneity and self-selection: An application in breast cancer patients (2007) (17)
A Dynamic Model of Health, Education, and Wealth with Credit Constraints and Rational Addiction (2015) (17)
The Lasting Effects of Early Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans (2021) (16)
Additional Material for \Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation" (Cuttings from the Web Appendix) (2010) (16)
The Economic and Social Benefits of GED Certification (2013) (16)
Accounting for the Effect of Schooling and Abilities in the Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Achievement Test Scores (2005) (16)
Constructing Economically Justied Aggregates: An Application to the Early Origins of Health (2010) (16)
Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment: Introduction (2016) (15)
Estimation of Treatment Effects under Essential Heterogeneity (2006) (15)
The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Earnings: Different School Systems (2010) (15)
Identification and SQRT N Efficient Estimation of Semiparametric Panel Data Models with Binary Dependent Variables and a Latent Factor (2000) (15)
Racial Disparity and Employment Discrimination Law: An Economic Perspective (1990) (15)
Social Policy: Targeting programmes effectively (2017) (15)
Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (2014) (14)
Chapter 9 - The GED☆ (2011) (14)
Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation Revisited (1991) (14)
Investing in Our Young People (2010) (14)
Labor market returns to early childhood stimulation : a 20-year follow-up to the Jamaica study (2013) (14)
Human Capital Formation in Childhood and Adolescence (2009) (13)
U.S. Education and Training Policy: A Re-evaluation of the Underlying Assumptions Behind the "New Consensus" (1993) (13)
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Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31 (2021) (5)
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The Race Between Demand and Supply: Tinbergen’s Pioneering Studies of Earnings Inequality (2019) (4)
Front matter, Law and Employment. Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean (2004) (4)
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Early Childhood Education IZA DP No . 9476 November 2015 (2015) (1)
Interview with James Heckman (2022) (1)
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Economic Returns to Early Education for Disadvantaged Children: Lessons from the HighScope Perry Preschool Program (in Russian) (2010) (0)
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Principles Underlying Econometric Estimators for Identifying CausalEffects (2011) (0)
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Primate Evidence on the Late Health Effects of Early Life Adversity (2012) (0)
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Performance of matching as an econometric estimator: application to the JTPA program (1997) (0)
The Developmental Origins of Health 1 (2012) (0)
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Parenting Promotes Social Mobility within and Across Generations (2022) (0)
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Returns to Education: The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health and Smoking (2016) (0)
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An Effective Strategy for Reducing Inequality and Promoting Social Mobility by Creating Skills (2018) (0)
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A 20-year Follow-Up to an Early Childhood Stimulation Program in Jamaica (2019) (0)
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