Education, Health and Wages by James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Gregory Veramendi, and Sergio Urzúa published NBER (3/2014) This paper develops and estimates a model with multiple schooling choices that identifies the causal effect of different levels of…
Schools, Skills, and Synapses by James J. Heckman published by NBER (8/2008). This paper discusses (a) the role of cognitive and noncognitive ability in shaping adult outcomes, (b) the early emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged…