Early Childhood Development Research

Research Products

Almlund, Mathilde, Angela Lee Duckworth, James J. Heckman, and Tim Kautz. (2011). "Personality Psychology and Economics," in Handbook of the Economics of Education, vol. 4. edited by E. Hanushek, S. Machin, and L. Woessman. Chapter 1, pp. 1-181. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Conti, Gabriella, James J. Heckman, and Sergio Urzua. (2010). “The Education-Health Gradient,” American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 100(2): 234–238.

Cunha, Flavio, and James J. Heckman. (2010). "Investing in Our Young People," NBER Working Paper 16201.In Childhood Programs and Practices in the First Decade of Life, edited by Arthur J. Reynolds, Arthur J. Rolnick, Michelle M. Englund, Judy A. Temple. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Heckman, James J. (2012). "An Effective Strategy for Promoting Social Mobility," Boston Review, forthcoming.

Heckman, James J. (2011). "Effective Child Development Strategies," in The Pre-K Debates: Current Controversies and Issues, edited by Edward Zigler, Walter S. Gillam, and W. Steven Barnett. Baltimore, Md : Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company.

Heckman, James J. (2011). “The American Family in Black & White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality,” Daedalus, 140(2): 70–89.

Heckman, James J. (2008). “Schools, Skills and Synapses,” Economic Inquiry, 46(3): 289-324.

Heckman, James J., John Eric Humphries, Paul A. LaFontaine, and Pedro L. Rodríguez. (2012). "Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out," Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming. Web Appendix

Heckman, James J., John Eric Humphries, and Nicholas Mader. (2011). "The GED," in Handbook of the Economics of Education, vol. 4. edited by E. Hanushek, S. Machin, and L. Woessman. Chapter 9, pp. 424-483. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Heckman, James J., Seong Hyeok Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter A. Savelyev, and Adam Q. Yavitz (2010). “Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented: A Reexamination of the Evidence from the HighScope Perry Preschool Program,” Quantitative Economics, 1(1): 1–46.

Heckman, James J., Seong Hyeok Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter A. Savelyev, and Adam Q. Yavitz (2010). “The Rate of the Return to the HighScope Perry Preschool Program,” Journal of Public Economics, 94: 114–128.