[AAACE-NLA] Economist Heckman statement

[Hal Beder]

Here is the citation:
Cameron, S. & Heckman, J. (1993). The Nonequivalence of High School 
Equivalents, Journal of Labor Economics.  11:1 p 1-47.

Also look at the work of Murnane and Tyler.  You can download from 
the NCSALL website.






At 02:02 PM 2/21/2006, you wrote:
>Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
>Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>         boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C63719.5005F7EB"
>
>Greetings,
>
>In the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer in an article on the importance 
>of providing preschool education, Professor James Heckman of the 
>University of Chicago and a Nobel laureate in economics is 
>paraphrased as saying:  from a purely human capital point of view, 
>investiment in early childhood is much more cost-effective than 
>investment in job training of GEDs.
>
>Does anyone have a reference to an article by Heckman on this 
>subject?  Was the return on investment made on parents included?
>
>JoAnn Weinberger
>President/Executive Director
>Center for Literacy
>215-474-1235, ext. 227
>
>_______________________________________________
>AAACE-NLA mailing list: AAACE-NLA at lists.literacytent.org
>http://lists.literacytent.org/mailman/listinfo/aaace-nla
>LiteracyTent: web hosting, news, community and goodies for literacy
>http://literacytent.org

Rutgers University
Graduate School of Education
10 seminary Pl.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-932-7496 ext. 8213