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James Heckman

Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
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Sample selection bias as a specification error (with an application to the estimation of labor supply functions)

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JJ Heckman - 1977 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER Working Paper Series SAMPLE SELECTION BIAS AS A SPECIFICATION
ERROR (with an application to the estimation of labor supply functions) James J,
Heckman Working Paper No. 172 CENTER FOR ECONOMIC ...
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[PDF] The common structure of statistical models of truncation, sample selection and limited dependent variables and a simple estimator for such models

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JJ Heckman - 1976 - nber.org
Page 1. This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of
Economic Research Volume Title: Annals of Economic and Social Measurement, Volume
5, number 4 Volume Author/Editor: NBER Volume Publisher: NBER ...
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The economics and econometrics of active labor market programs

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JJ Heckman, RJ LaLonde… - Handbook of labor economics, 1999 - Elsevier
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Matching as an econometric evaluation estimator: Evidence from evaluating a job training programme

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JJ Heckman, H Ichimura… - The review of economic studies, 1997 - JSTOR
Page 1. Review of Economic Studies (1997) 64, 605-654 0034-6527/97/00280605$02.00 ?
1997 The Review of Economic Studies Limited Matching As An Econometric Evaluation
Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme ...
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A method for minimizing the impact of distributional assumptions in econometric models for duration data

J Heckman… - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1984 - JSTOR
Conventional analyses of single spell duration models control for unobservables using a
random effect estimator which the distribution of unobservables selected by ad hoc criteria.
Both theoretical and empirical examples indicate that estimates of structural parameters ...
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[PDF] Female labor supply: A survey

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MR Killingsworth… - Handbook of labor economics, 1986 - elsa.berkeley.edu
Page 1. Chapter 2 FEMALE LABOR SUPPLY: A SURVEY MARK R. KILLINGSWORTH
Rutgers Unit,ersi O' JAMES J. HECKMAN* Unit,ersitv of Chicago I. Introduction This
chapter surveys theoretical and empirical work on the ...
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Matching as an econometric evaluation estimator

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JJ Heckman, H Ichimura… - Review of Economic …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. Review of Economic Studies (1998) 65, 261-294 0 1998 The Review of Economic
Studies Limited Oo34-6527/98/00 120261 $02.00 Matching As An Econometric
Evaluation Estimator JAMES J. HECKMAN University of Chicago ...
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Dummy endogenous variables in a simultaneous equation system

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JJ Heckman - 1977 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER Working Paper Series DUMMY ENDOGENOUS VARIABLES IN A
SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION SYSTEM James J. Heckman Working Paper No. 177 CENTER
FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS ...
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Shadow prices, market wages, and labor supply

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J Heckman - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1974 - JSTOR
IN RECENT RESEARCH on married women in the labor market, a common set of variables
is used to explain their wage rates, hours of work, and decision to work. Typically, these
topics are treated separately, although Kalachek and Raines [14] and Boskin [7] estimate ...
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Alternative methods for evaluating the impact of interventions:: An overview

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JJ Heckman… - Journal of Econometrics, 1985 - Elsevier
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[BOOK] The incidental parameters problem and the problem of initial conditions in estimating a discrete time-discrete data stochastic process and some Monte Carlo …

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JJ Heckman - 1987 - imamu.edu.sa
Page 1. 4 The Incidental Parameters Problem and the Problem of Initial Conditions
in Estimating a Discrete Time-Discrete Data Stochastic Process James J. Heckman
4.1 Introduction This chapter considers two problems : the ...
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Choosing among alternative nonexperimental methods for estimating the impact of social programs: The case of manpower training

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JJ Heckman - 1989 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CHOOSING AMONG ALTERNATIVE
NONEXPERIMENTAL METHODS FOR ESTIMATING THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS:
THE CASE OF MANPOWER TRAINING James J. Heckman Working Paper No. ...
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Policies to foster human capital

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JJ Heckman - 1999 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES POLICIES TO FOSTER HUMAN CAPITAL
James J. Heckman Working Paper 7288 http://www.nber.org/papers/w7288 NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts ...
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Human capital policy

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P Carneiro… - 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper considers alternative policies for promoting skill formation that are
targeted to different stages of the life cycle. We demonstrate the importance of both cognitive
and noncognitive skills that are formed early in the life cycle in accounting for racial, ethnic ...
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The effects of cognitive and noncognitive abilities on labor market outcomes and social behavior

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JJ Heckman, J Stixrud… - 2006 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE AND NONCOGNITIVE
ABILITIES ON LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR James J. Heckman Jora
Stixrud Sergio Urzua Working Paper 12006 http://www.nber.org/papers/w12006 ...
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Life cycle schooling and dynamic selection bias: Models and evidence for five cohorts

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SV Cameron… - 1998 - nber.org
Page 1. LIFE CYCLE SCHOOLING AND DYNAMIC SELECTION BIAS: MODELS AND
EVIDENCE FOR FIVE COHORTS OF AMERICAN MALES Stephen V. Cameron James
J. Heckman Working Paper 6385 Page 2. NBER WORKING ...
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New methods for analyzing structural models of labor force dynamics

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C Flinn… - Journal of Econometrics, 1982 - Elsevier
Abstract The economic theory of decision-making under uncertainty is used to produce three
econometric models of dynamic discrete choice:(1) for a single spell of unemployment;(2) for
an equilibrium two-state model of employment and non-employment;(3) for a general ...
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Assessing the case for social experiments

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JJ Heckman… - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1995 - JSTOR
Page 1. Journal of Economic Perspectives- Volume 9, Number 2-Spring 1995-Pages
85-110 Assessing the Case for Social Experiments James J. Heckman and Jeffrey
A. Smith Rs ecent academic debates pit two alternative ...
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A life cycle model of female labour supply

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JJ Heckman… - The Review of Economic Studies, 1980 - JSTOR
Page 1. Review of Economic Studies (1980) XLVII, 47-74 0034-6527/80/00030047$02.00 ? The
Society for Economic Analysis Limited A Life Cycle Model of Female Labour Supply JAMES J.
HECKMAN University of Chicago and THOMAS E. MACURDY Stanford University ...
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A life-cycle model of earnings, learning, and consumption

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JJ Heckman - The Journal of Political Economy, 1976 - JSTOR
Page 1. Part I Earnings and Employment Page 2. A Life-Cycle Model of Earnings,
Learning, and Consumption James J. Heckman University of Chicago and National
Bureau of Economic Research In this paper I develop a life ...
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Does unemployment cause future unemployment? Definitions, questions and answers from a continuous time model of heterogeneity and state dependence

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JJ Heckman… - Economica, 1980 - JSTOR
Page 1. Economica, 47, 247-283 Does Unemployment Cause Future Unemployment?
Definitions, Questions and Answers from a Continuous Time Model of Heterogeneity and
State Dependence By JAMES J. HECKMAN and GEORGE J. BORJAS ...
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Interpreting the evidence on life cycle skill formation

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F Cunha, JJ Heckman, L Lochner… - Handbook of the …, 2006 - Elsevier
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Varieties of selection bias

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J Heckman - The American Economic Review, 1990 - JSTOR
This paper considers a prototypical problem in the econometrics of selection bias: estimating
the impact of unionism on wage differentials. The statistical structure of this problem is the
same as that of many other self-selection problems in economics. The union wage ...
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The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post‐Secondary Schooling*

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P Carneiro… - The Economic Journal, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
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[CITATION] Econometric duration analysis

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JJ Heckman… - Journal of Econometrics, 1984 - econpapers.repec.org
By James J. Heckman and Burton Singer; Econometric duration analysis.
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Explaining rising wage inequality: Explorations with a dynamic general equilibrium model of labor earnings with heterogeneous agents

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JJ Heckman, L Lochner… - 1998 - nber.org
Page 1. EXPLAINING RISING WAGE INEQUALITY: EXPLORATIONS WITH A DYNAMIC
GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL OF LABOR EARNINGS WITH HETEROGENEOUS AGENTS
James J. Heckman Lance Lochner Christopher Taber Working Paper 6384 Page 2. ...
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The technology of skill formation

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F Cunha… - 2007 - nber.org
This research was supported by NIH R01-HD043411, NSF SES-24158, the Committee for
Economic Development with a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Partnership for
America's Economic Success, and the JB Pritzker Consortium on Early Childhood ...
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What has been learned about labor supply in the past twenty years?

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JJ Heckman - The American Economic Review, 1993 - JSTOR
Page 1. What Has Been Learned About Labor Supply in the Past Twenty Years?
By JAMES J. HECKMAN* The main advance in the study of labor supply in the past
20 years has come in recognizing and interpreting the variety ...
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[PDF] Heterogeneity and state dependence

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JJ Heckman - 1981 - nber.org
Page 1. This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic
Research Volume Title: Studies in Labor Markets Volume Author/Editor: Sherwin Rosen, ed.
Volume Publisher: University of Chicago Press Volume ISBN: 0-226-72628-2 ...
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The nonequivalence of high school equivalents

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SV Cameron… - 1991 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPERS SERIES THE NONEQUIVALENCE OF HIGH
SCHOOL EQUIVALENTS Stephen V. Cameron James J. Beckman Working Paper
No. 3804 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH ...
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The dynamics of educational attainment for black, hispanic, and white males

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SV Cameron… - Journal of Political Economy, 2001 - JSTOR
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Instrumental variables: A study of implicit behavioral assumptions used in making program evaluations

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J Heckman - Journal of Human Resources, 1997 - JSTOR
This paper considers the use of instrumental variables to estimate the mean effect of
treatment on the treated, the mean effect of treatment on randomly selected persons and the
local average treatment effect. It examines what economic questions these parameters ...
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The empirical content of the Roy model

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JJ Heckman… - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric …, 1990 - JSTOR
Page 1. Econometrica, Vol. 58, No. 5 (September, 1990), 1121-1149 THE EMPIRICAL CONTENT
OF THE ROY MODEL BY JAMES J. HECKMAN AND Bo E. HONORE1 This paper clarifies and
extends the classical Roy model of self selection and earnings inequality. ...
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Skill formation and the economics of investing in disadvantaged children

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JJ Heckman - Science, 2006 - sciencemag.org
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Detecting discrimination

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JJ Heckman - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1998 - JSTOR
Page 1. Journal of Economic Perspectives-Volume 12, Number 2-Spring 1998-Pages
101-116 Detecting Discrimination James J. Heckman n the current atmosphere
of race relations in America, the authors of the three main ...
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[PDF] Microdata, heterogeneity and the evaluation of public policy

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JJ Heckman - Bank of Sweden Nobel Memorial Lecture …, 2000 - athens.src.uchicago.edu
Page 1. Microdata, Heterogeneity And The Evaluation of Public Policy James J. Heckman*
University of Chicago and The American Bar Foundation Bank of Sweden Nobel Memorial
Lecture in Economic Sciences December 8, 2000 Stockholm, Sweden ...
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Making the most out of programme evaluations and social experiments: Accounting for heterogeneity in programme impacts

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JJ Heckman, J Smith… - The Review of …, 1997 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Page 1. Review of Economic Studies (1997) 64, 487 535 © 1997 The Review of Economic Studies
Limited 0034-6527/97/00240487$02.00 Making The Most Out Of Programme Evaluations and Social
Experiments: Accounting For Heterogeneity in Programme Impacts ...
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Heterogeneity, aggregation, and market wage functions: an empirical model of self-selection in the labor market

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JJ Heckman… - The journal of political economy, 1985 - JSTOR
Page 1. Heterogeneity, Aggregation, and Market Wage Functions: An Empirical Model
of Self-Selection in the Labor Market James J. Heckman University of Chicago
Guilherme Sedlacek Carnegie-Mellon University This paper ...
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The cost of job security regulation: evidence from Latin American labor markets

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JJ Heckman - 2000 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE COST OF JOB SECURITY REGULATION:
EVIDENCE FROM LATIN AMERICAN LABOR MARKETS James J. Heckman Carmen
Pages Working Paper 7773 http://www.nber.org/papers/w7773 ...
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Continuous versus episodic change: The impact of civil rights policy on the economic status of blacks

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J Donohue… - Journal of Economic Literature, 1991 - works.bepress.com
" Professional economists are cur-■*-rently divided in their assessment of the contribution of
federal civil rights policy to the elevation of black economic status. One group of scholars
argues that long-term secular trends in migration and educational attainment largely ...
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The productivity argument for investing in young children

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JJ Heckman… - … Economic Perspectives and …, 2007 - aepp.oxfordjournals.org
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[PDF] Effects of child-care programs on women's work effort

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JJ Heckman - 1974 - nber.org
Page 1. This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of
Economic Research Volume Title: Marriage, Family, Human Capital, and Fertility Volume
Author/Editor: Schultz, Theodore W., ed. Volume Publisher: UMI ...
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Fifty years of Mincer earnings regressions

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JJ Heckman, LJ Lochner… - 2003 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES FIFTY YEARS OF MINCER EARNINGS
REGRESSIONS James J. Heckman Lance J. Lochner Petra E. Todd Working Paper
9732 http://www.nber.org/papers/w9732 NATIONAL BUREAU ...
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The importance of noncognitive skills: Lessons from the GED testing program

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JJ Heckman… - The American Economic Review, 2001 - JSTOR
... It is, then, no surprise that GED recipients are the ones who drop out of school, fail to
complete college (Stephen Cameron and James Heckman, 1993) and who fail to persist
in the military (Janice Laurence, 2000). ... 51-68. Heckman, James. ...
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Structural equations, treatment effects and econometric policy evaluation

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JJ Heckman… - 2005 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS, TREATMENT
EFFECTS AND ECONOMETRIC POLICY EVALUATION James J. Heckman Edward
Vytlacil Working Paper 11259 http://www.nber.org/papers/w11259 ...
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The relationship between wages and income and the timing and spacing of births: Evidence from Swedish longitudinal data

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JJ Heckman… - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1990 - JSTOR
Page 1. Econometrica, Vol. 58, No. 6 (November, 1990), 1411-1441 THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN WAGES AND INCOME AND THE TIMING AND SPACING OF BIRTHS: EVIDENCE
FROM SWEDISH LONGITUDINAL DATA' BY JAMES J. HECKMAN AND JAMES R. WALKER ...
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A beta-logistic model for the analysis of sequential labor force participation by married women

JJ Heckman… - The Journal of Political Economy, 1977 - JSTOR
Page 1. A Beta-logistic Model for the Analysis of Sequential Labor Force Participation by Married
Women James J. Heckman University of Chicago and National Bureau of Economic Research
Robert J. Willis National Bureau of Economic Research and Stanford University ...
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Micro data and general equilibrium models

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M Browning, LP Hansen… - Handbook of macroeconomics, 1999 - Elsevier
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The economics and psychology of personality traits

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L Borghans, AL Duckworth, JJ Heckman… - 2008 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE ECONOMICS AND PSYCHOLOGY OF
PERSONALITY TRAITS Lex Borghans Angela Lee Duckworth James J. Heckman Bas
ter Weel Working Paper 13810 http://www.nber.org/papers/w13810 ...
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Are unemployment and out of the labor force behaviorally distinct labor force states?

CJ Flinn… - Journal of Labor Economics, 1983 - JSTOR
Page 1. Are Unemployment and Out of the Labor Force Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States?
Christopher J. Flinn, University of Wisconsin-Madison James J. Heckman, University of Chicago
This paper tests the hypothesis that the classifications "unemployed" ...
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Using matching, instrumental variables, and control functions to estimate economic choice models

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J Heckman… - Review of Economics and statistics, 2004 - MIT Press
This paper investigates four topics.(1) It examines the different roles played by the
propensity score (the probability of selection into treatment) in matching, instrumental
variable, and control function methods.(2) It contrasts the roles of exclusion restrictions in ...
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Linear probability models of the demand for attributes with an empirical application to estimating the preferences of legislators

JJ Heckman… - 1996 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES LINEAR PROBABILITY MODELS OF THE DEMAND
FOR ATTRIBUTES WITH AN EMPIRICAL APPLICATION TO ESTIMATING THE PREFERENCES
OF LEGISLATORS James J. Heckman James M. Snyder, Jr. ...
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Economic, neurobiological, and behavioral perspectives on building America's future workforce

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EI Knudsen, JJ Heckman… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
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The pre-program earnings dip and the determinants of participation in a social program: implications for simple program evaluation strategies

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JJ Heckman… - 1999 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRE-PROGRAM EARNINGS DIP
AND THE DETERMINANTS OF PARTICIPATION IN A SOCIAL PROGRAM:
IMPLICATIONS FOR SIMPLE PROGRAM EVALUATION STRATEGIES ...
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Causal parameters and policy analysis in economics: A twentieth century retrospective

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JJ Heckman - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Page 1. CAUSAL PARAMETERS AND POLICY ANALYSIS IN ECONOMICS: A
TWENTIETH CENTURY RETROSPECTIVE* JAMES J. HECKMAN The major
contributions of twentieth century econometrics to knowledge were ...
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Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College

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P Carneiro, KT Hansen… - 2003 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ESTIMATING DISTRIBUTIONS OF TREATMENT
EFFECTS WITH AN APPLICATION TO THE RETURNS TO SCHOOLING AND MEASUREMENT
OF THE EFFECTS OF UNCERTAINTY ON COLLEGE CHOICE ...
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The empirical foundations of calibration

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LP Hansen… - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1996 - JSTOR
Page 1. Journal of Economic Perspectives-Volume 10, Number 1-Winter 1996-Pages
87-104 The Empirical Foundations of Calibration Lars Peter Hansen and James J.
Heckman G eneral equilibrium theory provides the intellectual ...
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Earnings functions, rates of return and treatment effects: The Mincer equation and beyond

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JJ Heckman, LJ Lochner… - Handbook of the Economics of …, 2006 - Elsevier
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Randomization and social policy evaluation

JJ Heckman - 1991 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER TECHNICAL WORKING PAPER SERIES RANDOMIZATION AND
SOCIAL POLICY EVALUATION James J. Heckman Technical Working Paper No.
107 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 ...
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Identification and estimation of hedonic models

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I Ekeland, JJ Heckman… - 2003 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES IDENTIFICATION AND ESTIMATION
OF HEDONIC MODELS Ivar Ekeland James J. Heckman Lars P. Nesheim Working
Paper 9910 http://www.nber.org/papers/w9910 NATIONAL ...
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Human capital policy

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J Heckman… - 2003 - nber.org
This paper considers alternative policies for promoting skill formation that are targetted to
different stages of the life cycle. We demonstrate the importance of both cognitive and
noncognitive skills that are formed early in the life cycle in accounting for racial, ethnic and ...
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The estimation of income and substitution effects in a model of family labor supply

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O Ashenfelter… - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric …, 1974 - JSTOR
This paper contains the formulation of the theoretical restrictions on the labor supply
functions of the husband and wife in a model of family labor supply in a manner that makes
them readily amenable to test and, if they are not rejected, to imposition onto the data. It ...
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Determining the impact of federal antidiscrimination policy on the economic status of blacks: a study of South Carolina

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JJ Heckman… - 1989 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DETERMINING THE IMPACT OF FEDERAL
ANTIDISCRIMINATION POLICY ON THE ECONOMIC STATUS OF BLACKS: A STUDY OF
SOUTH CAROLINA James J. Heckman Brook S. Payner Working Paper No. ...
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Local instrumental variables and latent variable models for identifying and bounding treatment effects

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JJ Heckman… - Proceedings of the National …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
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The economics, technology, and neuroscience of human capability formation

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JJ Heckman - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
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Formulating, identifying and estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation

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F Cunha… - Journal of Human Resources, 2008 - jhr.uwpress.org
Page 1. Formulating, Identifying and Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and
Noncognitive Skill Formation Flavio Cunha James J. Heckman abstract This paper
estimates models of the evolution of cognitive and noncognitive ...
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Understanding instrumental variables in models with essential heterogeneity

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JJ Heckman, S Urzua… - 2006 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES UNDERSTANDING INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES
IN MODELS WITH ESSENTIAL HETEROGENEITY James J. Heckman Sergio Urzua Edward
J. Vytlacil Working Paper 12574 http://www.nber.org/papers/w12574 ...
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Empirical evidence on the functional form of the earnings-schooling relationship

J Heckman… - Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1974 - JSTOR
This article presents empirical evidence on the correct functional form of the regression
relationship between earnings as regress and schooling and experience as regressors.
Evidence from several bodies of data suggests that among simple transformations the ...
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General equilibrium treatment effects: A study of tuition policy

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JJ Heckman, L Lochner… - 1998 - nber.org
... capitals with physical capital. The framework explains the pattern of rising wage
inequality ex- perienced in the United States in the past 30 years (James Heckman,
Lance Lochner and Christopher Taber, 1998). In this paper ...
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Life cycle consumption and labor supply: an explanation of the relationship between income and consumption over the life cycle

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J Heckman - The American Economic Review, 1974 - JSTOR
In a recent paper in this Review, Lester Thurow presents empirical evidence in apparent
contradiction with the conventional life cycle consumption theory enunciated by Franco
Modigliani and Richard Brumberg, Menahem Yaari, and James Tobin. That theory ...
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Human capital pricing equations with an application to estimating the effect of schooling quality on earnings

J Heckman, A Layne-Farrar… - The Review of Economics and …, 1996 - JSTOR
This paper formulates and estimates alternative models for the pricing of labor services. We
present economic models that rationalize empirical specifications in the literature and we
offer evidence on the validity of those specifications. Widely used efficiency units models ...
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Separating uncertainty from heterogeneity in life cycle earnings

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F Cunha, J Heckman… - Oxford Economic Papers, 2005 - Oxford Univ Press
Abstract This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section
variability of earnings into components that are forecastable at the time students decide to
go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of ...
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Econometric evaluation of social programs, part I: Causal models, structural models and econometric policy evaluation

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JJ Heckman… - Handbook of econometrics, 2007 - Elsevier
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An investigation of the labor market earnings of panamanian males evaluating the sources of inequality

JJ Heckman… - Journal of Human Resources, 1986 - JSTOR
Page 1. An Investigation of the Labor Market Earnings of Panamanian Males
Evaluating the Sources of Inequality James J. Heckman V. Joseph Hotz ABSTRACT
This paper presents empirical evidence on the determinants of ...
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Alternative methods for solving the problem of selection bias in evaluating the impact of treatments on outcomes

J Heckman… - Drawing inferences from self-selected …, 1986 - books.google.com
Social scientists never have access to true experimental data of the type sometimes
available to laboratory scientists. 1 Our inability to use laboratory methods to independently
vary treatments to eliminate or isolate spurious channels of causation places a ...
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Local instrumental variables

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JJ Heckman… - 2000 - nber.org
Page 1. TECHNICAL WORKING PAPER SERIES LOCAL INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES
James J. Heckman Edward J. Vytlacil Technical Working Paper 252 http://www.nber.
org/papers/T0252 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ...
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The effect of schooling and ability on achievement test scores

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KT Hansen, JJ Heckman… - Journal of econometrics, 2004 - Elsevier
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The identifiability of the proportional hazard model

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J Heckman… - The Review of Economic Studies, 1984 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper presents new identifiability conditions for the Cox proportional hazard
model for duration data when unobserved person specific variables are present. We
compare our conditions with those presented by Elbers and Ridder. We also present ...
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Instrumental variables methods for the correlated random coefficient model: Estimating the average rate of return to schooling when the return is correlated with …

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J Heckman… - Journal of Human Resources, 1998 - JSTOR
This paper considers the use of instrumental variables to identify a correlated random
coefficients model in which coefficients are correlated with (or stochastically dependent on)
the regressors. A correlated random coefficients model is central to the human capital ...
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Schools, skills, and synapses

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JJ Heckman - Economic Inquiry, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
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A Test for Subadditivity of the Cost Function with an Application to the Bell System

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DS Evans… - The American Economic Review, 1984 - JSTOR
Page 1. A Test for Subadditivity of the Cost Function with an Application to the Bell
System By DAVID S. EVANS AND JAMES J. HECKMAN* The recent literature on
multiproduct firms demonstrates that when all firms in an in ...
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Lessons from the bell curve

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JJ Heckman - Journal of Political Economy, 1995 - JSTOR
Page 1. Lessons from the Bell Curve James J. Heckman University of Chicago and
American Bar Foundation This paper examines the argument presented in The
Bell Curve. A central argument is that one factor-g-accounts ...
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[CITATION] Using longitudinal data to estimate age, period and cohort effects in earnings equations

J Heckman, R Robb - Cohort …, 1985 - New York, New York: Springer- …
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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation

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F Cunha, JJ Heckman… - Econometrica, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. Econometrica, Vol. 78, No. 3 (May, 2010), 883–931 ESTIMATING THE
TECHNOLOGY OF COGNITIVE AND NONCOGNITIVE SKILL FORMATION BY FLAVIO
CUNHA, JAMES J. HECKMAN, AND SUSANNE M. SCHENNACH1 ...
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Evaluating the welfare state

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JJ Heckman… - 1998 - nber.org
Page 1. EVALUATING THE WELFARE STATE James J. Heckman Jeffrey A. Smith
Working Paper 6542 Page 2. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EVALUATING THE
WELFARE STATE James J. Heckman Jeffrey A. Smith Working ...
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The scientific model of causality

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JJ Heckman - Sociological methodology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. 1 THE SCIENTIFIC MODEL OF CAUSALITY James J. Heckman* Causality
is a very intuitive notion that is difficult to make precise without lapsing into tautology.
Two ingredients are central to any definition: (1) a set of ...
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Does measured school quality really matter? An examination of the earnings-quality relationship

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J Heckman, A Layne-Farrar… - 1995 - nber.org
This paper examines the economic and empirical foundations of the aggregate evidence on
the effect of schooling quality on earnings. A common framework is presented which nests
all previous studies as special cases. We discuss two crucial identifying assumptions and ...
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[CITATION] The identification problem in econometric models for duration data

JJ Heckman, B Singer - Advances in …, 1982 - Cambridge, UK: Cambridge …
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[PDF] Introduction to" Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin American and the Caribbean"

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JJ Heckman - 2004 - nber.org
... James Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and of Social
Sciences, director of the Center for Social Program Evaluation at the University of Chicago, and
a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. ...
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Identifying the role of cognitive ability in explaining the level of and change in the return to schooling

J Heckman… - 2000 - nber.org
This paper considers two problems that arise in determining the role of ability in explaining
the level of and change in the rate of return to schooling.(1) Ability and schooling are so
strongly dependent that it is not possible, over a wide range of variation in schooling and ...
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[PDF] Estimation of a stochastic model of reproduction an econometnc approach

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JJ Heckman, R Willis - 1976 - nber.org
Page 1. This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic
Research Volume Title: Household Production and Consumption Volume Author/Editor: Nestor
E. Terleckyj Volume Publisher: NBER Volume ISBN: 0-870-14515-0 ...
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[CITATION] Social science duration analysis

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Dynamic discrete choice and dynamic treatment effects

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The American high school graduation rate: Trends and levels

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JJ Heckman… - 2007 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATION RATE: TRENDS AND LEVELS James J. Heckman Paul A. LaFontaine
Working Paper 13670 http://www.nber.org/papers/w13670 NATIONAL ...
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Tax policy and human capital formation

JJ Heckman, L Lochner… - 1998 - nber.org
... endogenous heterogeneous human capital accumulation. Our model explains many
features of rising wage inequality in the US economy (James Heckman, Lance
Lochner and Christopher Taber, 1998). In this paper, we use ...
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Lab experiments are a major source of knowledge in the social sciences

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Selection bias, comparative advantage and heterogeneous returns to education

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JJ Heckman… - 2003 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SELECTION BIAS, COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
AND HETEROGENEOUS RETURNS TO EDUCATION: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA IN 2000 James
J. Heckman Xuesong Li Working Paper 9877 http://www.nber.org/papers/w9877 ...
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[CITATION] Population heterogeneity in demographic models

JJ Heckman… - Multidimensional mathematical …, 1982 - Academic Press New York
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[CITATION] The Urban Institute audit studies: Their methods and findings

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The government's impact on the labor market status of black Americans: A critical review

R Butler… - 1977 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER Working Paper Series THE GOVERNMENT'S IMPACT ON THE
LABOR MARKET STATUS OF BLACK AMERICANS: A CRITICAL REVIEW Richard
Butler James J. Heckman* Working Paper No. 183 CENTER ...
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