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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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Economic Research Volume Title: Annals of Economic and Social Measurement, Volume
5, number 4 Volume Author/Editor: NBER Volume Publisher: NBER ...
JJ Heckman, RJ LaLonde… - Handbook of labor economics, 1999 - Elsevier
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
JJ Heckman… - Journal of Econometrics, 1985 - Elsevier
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
F Cunha,
JJ Heckman, L Lochner… - Handbook of the …, 2006 - Elsevier
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 ...
P Carneiro… - The Economic Journal, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
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JJ Heckman… - Journal of Econometrics, 1984 - econpapers.repec.org
By James J. Heckman and Burton Singer; Econometric duration analysis.
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. ...
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 ...
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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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 ...
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 ...
SV Cameron… - Journal of Political Economy, 2001 - JSTOR
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
JJ Heckman… - … Economic Perspectives and …, 2007 - aepp.oxfordjournals.org
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Economic Research Volume Title: Marriage, Family, Human Capital, and Fertility Volume
Author/Editor: Schultz, Theodore W., ed. Volume Publisher: UMI ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
M Browning, LP Hansen… - Handbook of macroeconomics, 1999 - Elsevier
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 ...
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" ...
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 ...
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. ...
EI Knudsen,
JJ Heckman… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
JJ Heckman, LJ Lochner… - Handbook of the Economics of …, 2006 - Elsevier
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
JJ Heckman… - Proceedings of the National …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
JJ Heckman - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
JJ Heckman… - Handbook of econometrics, 2007 - Elsevier
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
KT Hansen,
JJ Heckman… - Journal of econometrics, 2004 - Elsevier
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 ...
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 ...
JJ Heckman - Economic Inquiry, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
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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 ...
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 ...
[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- …
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
[CITATION] The identification problem in econometric models for duration data
JJ Heckman, B Singer - Advances in …, 1982 - Cambridge, UK: Cambridge …
... 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. ...
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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Research Volume Title: Household Production and Consumption Volume Author/Editor: Nestor
E. Terleckyj Volume Publisher: NBER Volume ISBN: 0-870-14515-0 ...
[CITATION] Social science duration analysis
JJ Heckman, B Singer - Longitudinal …, 1985 - Cambridge: Cambridge University …
JJ Heckman… - Journal of Econometrics, 2007 - Elsevier
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 ...
... 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 ...
A Falk… - Science, 2009 - sciencemag.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 ...
[CITATION] Population heterogeneity in demographic models
JJ Heckman… - Multidimensional mathematical …, 1982 - Academic Press New York
[CITATION] The Urban Institute audit studies: Their methods and findings
JJ Heckman, P Siegelman - Clear and …, 1993 - Washington, DC: The Urban Institute …
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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