Publications for NIH eSNAP Report for
R01 HD 043411-05

Books

Heckman, James J. and Edward Leamer, eds. Handbook of Econometrics, Vol 6. New York: North-Holland, forthcoming 2007.

Heckman, James J., ed. The GED, Under preparation, Brookings, 2007.

Book Chapters

Cunha, Flavio, James J. Heckman, Lance Lochner and Dimitriy Masterov (2006). “Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation,” in E. Hanushek and F. Welch, eds., Handbook of the Economics of Education, (North Holland: Amsterdam).

Cunha, Flavio, James J. Heckman and Salvador Navarro (2006). “Counterfactual Analysis of Inequality and Social Mobility,” in S. Morgan, D. Grusky and G. Fields. eds., Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research from Sociology and Economics, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.

Heckman, James J., Lance Lochner and Petra Todd (2006). “Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond,” in E. Hanushek and F. Welch, eds., Handbook of the Economics of Education, (North Holland: Amsterdam).

Journal Articles

Heckman, James J. (2006). “Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children,” Science, 312(5782): 1900-1902.

Knudsen, Eric, Judy Cameron, James J. Heckman and Jack Shonkoff (2006). “Economic, Neurobiological, and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(27): 10155-10162.

Knudsen, Eric, Judy Cameron, James J. Heckman and Jack Shonkoff (2006). “Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce” World Economics, 7(3).

Heckman, James J. and Dimitriy Masterov. (2006). “The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children,” Early Childhood Research Collaborative Discussion Paper, August.

Heckman, James J., Sergio Urzua and Edward Vytlacil (2006). “Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 88(3): 389-432.

Publications reported as “forthcoming” or “in press” on previous progress report:

Heckman, James J. (2005). “The Scientific Model of Causality,” Sociological Methodology, 35: 1–97, 2005.

Heckman, James J. and Paul LaFontaine (2006). “Bias Corrected Estimates of GED Returns,” Journal of Labor Economics, 24(3): 661-700.

Heckman, James J. and Salvador Navarro (2007). "Dynamic discrete choice and dynamic treatment effects," Journal of Econometrics 136(2): 341-396.

Heckman, James, J., Jora Stixrud and Sergio Urzua (2006). “The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior,” Journal of Labor Economics, 24(3): 411-482.

Working Papers, Papers In Progress And Papers Under Review

Cunha, Flavio and James J. Heckman (2007). “A Framework for the Analysis of Inequality,” Forthcoming, Journal of Macroeconomics.

Cunha, Flavio and James J. Heckman (2006). “Formulating, Identifying and Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation,” Under revision, Journal of Human Resources.

Cunha, Flavio and James J. Heckman (2007). “Identifying and Estimating the Distributions of Ex Post and Ex Ante Returns to Schooling: A Survey of Recent Developments,” (with F. Cunha), Under review, Labour Economics.

Cunha, Flavio and James J. Heckman. (2007). “Investing in our Young People,” Unpublished manuscript, University of Chicago, Department of Economics.

Cunha, Flavio and James J. Heckman (2006). “The Evolution of Labor Earnings Risk in the US Economy,” Presented at the 9th World Congress of the Econometric Society, London. Unpublished manuscript, University of Chicago, Department of Economics.

Cunha, Flavio and James J. Heckman. (2007). "The Technology of Skill Formation,” Forthcoming, American Economic Review, 97(2).

Cunha, Flavio, James J. Heckman and Salvador Navarro (2007). “The Identification and Economic Content of Ordered Choice Models with Stochastic Cutoffs,” Under review, International Economic Review.

Cunha, Flavio, James J. Heckman and Suzanne Schennach (2007). “Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation,” Under review, Econometrica.

Heckman, James J. and Edward Vytlacil (2007). “Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs, Part I: Causal Models, Structural Models and Econometric Policy Evaluation,” Forthcoming in J. Heckman and E. Leamer, eds., Handbook of Econometrics, Volume 6. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Heckman, James J. and Edward Vytlacil (2007). “Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs, Part II: Using Economic Choice Theory and the Marginal Treatment Effect to Organize Alternative Econometric Estimators,” Forthcoming in J. Heckman and E. Leamer, eds., Handbook of Econometrics, Volume 6. Amsterdam: Elsevier.