Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; Masterov, Dimitriy V.

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“…In a series of papers, Heckman and colleagues argue that parents influence the development of social and behavioral as well as cognitive skills, and that interventions such as enriched child-care centers (e.g., the Perry preschool program) boosted social and behavioral skills of children, and improved academic performance through this vehicle (Heckman and Rubenstein, 2001;Cawley, Heckman, and Vytlacil, 2001;Carneiro and Heckman, 2003;Cunha et al, 2006;Heckman and Masterov, 2007;Heckman, Stixrud, and Urzua, 2006;Urzua, 2006).…”

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Social and behavioral skills and the gender gap in early educational achievement

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Section: Social/behavioral Skills Academic Achievement and Gendermentioning

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Social and behavioral skills and the gender gap in early educational achievement

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2012

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“…Instead, when working with low-level exposures we need to "push the assay" so that we are working with doses and effect markers that are environmentally relevant and that address the public health issues of greatest concern. Rates of return to human capital investment initially setting investment to be equal across all ages (Cunha et al, 2005). Academic and social benefits at school exit for CPC participants (Cunha et al, 2005).…”

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“…Rates of return to human capital investment initially setting investment to be equal across all ages (Cunha et al, 2005). Academic and social benefits at school exit for CPC participants (Cunha et al, 2005). Phenomenology of TILT.…”

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“…A useful frame of reference is offered by early education programs such as Head Start. Figure 1 presents the argument by economists such as James Heckman (Cunha, 2005) that the dividends from such an investment are highest when the investments are made during early development. Later investments in education and training, according to calculations from his group at the University of Chicago (Cunha et al, 2005), may fall below the opportunity costs.…”

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The new tapestry of risk assessment

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Neurotoxicology is entering a new phase in how it views and practices risk assessment. Perhaps more than any of the other disciplines that comprise the science of toxicology, it has been compelled to consider a daunting array of factors other than those directly coupled to chemical and dose, and the age and sex of the subject population. In epidemiological investigations, researchers are increasingly cognizant of the problems introduced by allegedly controlling for variables classified as confounders or covariates. In essence, they reason, the consequence is blurring or even concealing interactions of exposure with modifiers such as the individual's social ecology. Other researchers question the traditional practice of relying on values such as NOAELs when they are abstracted from a biological entity that in reality represents a multiplicity of intertwined systems. Although neurotoxicologists have come to recognize the complexities of assessing risk in all its dimensions, they still face the challenge of communicating this view to the health professions at large.

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“…A number of previous papers review the effectiveness of: (i) mentoring programs from the psychologist perspective (DuBois et al, 2002;Jekielek et al, 2002;Rhodes, 2008;Toland et al, 2008); (ii) input-based schooling policies-such as lowering class sizes or tightening the requirement for teaching credentials- (Hanushek, 2003;and Rockoff, 2009); (iii) interventions on human capital skill formation (Heckman, 2000;and Cunha, et al, 2006); (iv) early childhood education programs (Heckman, 2000;Currie, 2001); (v) training and employment programs (Lalonde, 1995;Heckman et al, 1998;and Heckman, 2000); or (v) financial incentives in laboratory experiments (Camerer and Hogarth, 1999;Bonner et al, 1996;Herwig and Ortmann, 1998;and Jenkins et al, 1998). Our hope is that this article will serve as a resource for those seeking to understand what educational interventions work and to use as a starting point to illuminate the debate on where to go next.…”

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Mentoring, educational services, and incentives to learn: What do we know about them?

Rodríguez‐Planas

2012

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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

Cited by 911 publications

References 113 publications

Social and behavioral skills and the gender gap in early educational achievement

Social and behavioral skills and the gender gap in early educational achievement

The new tapestry of risk assessment

Mentoring, educational services, and incentives to learn: What do we know about them?

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