Human Capital HCEO - CEHD
Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group at the @UChicago Center for the Economics of Human Development. We generate & share research on how people achieve their fullest potential. https://hceconomics.uchicago.edu https://cehd.uchicago.
- Thanks, Asia Research News, for this piece on our China REACH program w/ CityUHK. We’ve learned so much about how enhancing interactions between caregivers and young children in rural areas can boost skills & long-term outcomes. @heckmanequation.bsky.social www.asiaresearchnews.com/content/city...
- New! Updated working paper from HCEO members Mariana Laverde and @aaronsojourner.org. hceconomics.uchicago.edu/research/wor...
- New working paper from HCEO member Daniela Del Boca on boosting parenting skills: hceconomics.uchicago.edu/research/wor...
- HCEO member Giovanni Gallipoli explores the dimensions of demand for liquidity at the end of life in a new HCEO working paper with Neha Bairoliya and Kathleen McKiernan. hceconomics.uchicago.edu/research/wor...
- Reposted by Human Capital HCEO - CEHDNew research by Soeren J. Henn and James Robinson challenges common views of pre-colonial Africa. Decentralized political systems prioritized local communities and shaped economic institutions around shared goals rather than centralized control or personal accumulation. 🔗 ow.ly/7aXE50Y5shY
- When measuring growth of knowledge and comparing people's skills, there’s a problem when new skills emerge that don’t fit existing scales. @heckmanequation.bsky.social, Haihan Tian, Jin Zhou & Zijian Zhang have addressed this by developing a novel measurement scheme. www.nber.org/papers/w34737
- New from HCEO member Michael Lovenheim et al: women and underrepresented minorities are less likely to major in high-earning fields like business, economics, engineering, and computer science in college -- but when they do, they experience lower returns to these majors. www.nber.org/papers/w34726
- Reposted by Human Capital HCEO - CEHD“The #Menopause ‘#Penalty’” now out as #CSEF Working Paper No. 770 (Jan 2026)! 📄 www.csef.it/WP/wp770.pdf First circulated in March 2024 - the topic quickly sparked discussion beyond academia. ✨ With @rginja.bsky.social, Petra Persson & @bartonwillage.com
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- Reposted by Human Capital HCEO - CEHDCommunity college bachelor’s degrees pay off in some fields but not all, offering higher earnings than associate degrees and mixed returns relative to traditional BAs, from Riley K. Acton, Camila Morales, Kalena Cortes, Julia A. Turner, and @loismiller.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34684
- A new paper from @heckmanequation.bsky.social and coauthors shows multigenerational effects of early-life advantage. Monkeys raised by their mothers benefit compared to those raised apart -- but only if the mothers were ALSO mother-reared. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- New from HCEO member Orazio Attanasio: www.nber.org/papers/w34651
- In a new working paper, HCEO member Svetlana Pashchenko and colleagues explore the best ways to reform Social Security by quantifying its distortions, redistribution, and welfare effects. hceconomics.uchicago.edu/research/wor...
- A brief entrepreneurship course improved Ugandan secondary school students' skills and led them to launch more enterprises that outperformed those launched by peers who were not in the program. Findings are detailed in a new paper from HCEO member Paul Gertler et al. www.nber.org/papers/w34637
- A new @nber.org working paper from HCEO member Costas Meghir, Philippe Aghion & Ingvild Almås examines the role of human capital in driving economic development, innovation, and growth -- and the barriers to skill acquisition. www.nber.org/papers/w34602
- Of interest: www.nber.org/papers/w34599
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- New from HCEO member Paul Gertler et al: Creating more preschool capacity raised the probability of completing secondary school by 11.9 percentage points and of enrolling in college by 7.1 percentage points. www.nber.org/papers/w34552
- New from HCEO member Paul Gertler and coauthors: www.nber.org/papers/w34560
- New @nber.org paper: an RTC studying a cash transfer program in Burkina Faso finds that “adding home visits is essential for improving childhood development, while cash, with or without information, produces no lasting impacts. www.nber.org/papers/w34578
- New @NBER.org working paper from HCEO member Kerwin Kofi Charles and colleagues: www.nber.org/papers/w34526
- Reposted by Human Capital HCEO - CEHDAbsolutely delighted our research has won the ONS' Research Excellence prize for impact! I always say to people that the ideal @theifs.bsky.social work is rigorous enough to publish in top journals, and relevant enough to be on the front page. I think we've ticked that box here!
- We're pleased to share that our report on the effects of Sure Start on children’s outcomes has won the 'Impact of Analysis' Award in this year's ONS Research Excellence Awards. 🏆 Find out more: ifs.org.uk/news/ifs-sur...
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- New @nber.org paper of interest: “Strengthening labor markets explain about 60% of the post-Great Recession decline in first-time community college enrollment.” Students whose enrollment is most sensitive to labor market conditions are unlikely to complete a degree. www.nber.org/papers/w3449...
- Reposted by Human Capital HCEO - CEHD🚨 New working paper! How well do people predict the results of studies? @sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇
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- Interesting data on the impact of specializing curriculum in a new @nber.org working paper. www.nber.org/papers/w34502
- HCEO member Leo Bursztyn and colleagues study how social forces drive parental demand for artificial intelligence-based learning in teens' education. They find that social pressure drives individual technology adoption despite widespread support for restricting its use. www.nber.org/papers/w3448...
- New @Nber.org working paper from HCEO member Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham (@paulgp.com) with Peter Hull and Michel Kolesar: www.nber.org/papers/w34473
- Reposted by Human Capital HCEO - CEHDNew evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYd…
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- New from HCEO member Janet Currie et al: use of an affordable housing tax credit program improves long-term health outcomes for women and their children. www.nber.org/papers/w34464
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- Fascinating work from HCEO member @fagostin.bsky.social and Zach Weingarten that aims to sort out the intricate and dynamic interplay between genetic contributions to development (via polygenetic scores) and parental responses to genetic inheritances. www.nber.org/papers/w34427
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- New from HCEO member @aaronsojourner.org and colleagues.
- How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers? New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL #EconSky papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- New work from HCEO member Eric Chyn on the effect of place and pollution on birthweight. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
- Reposted by Human Capital HCEO - CEHDJoin BCFG, @pennchibe.bsky.social, and @katymilkman.bsky.social TOMORROW 10/29 at 12 PM ET for MIT Professor Amy Finkelstein’s virtual keynote talk. Register here: upenn.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN…
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- New from HCEO member Bhashkar Mazumder and colleagues: A review of efforts to expand measurements of intergenerational mobility beyond income, education, and occupation to broader measures of well-being. www.nber.org/papers/w34407?
- Reposted by Human Capital HCEO - CEHD📢 New working paper alert! 📢 Super happy to share our new working paper, „The Demand for Economic Narratives“, with my great co-authors Sebastian Blesse, Klaus Gründler, and @philippheil.bsky.social. Check out the summary thread by Philipp below👇🏻🧵 @ifoeducation.bsky.social @cesifo.org
- 🔔 New working paper: “The Demand for Economic Narratives” with Sebastian Blesse, Klaus Gründler & @henninghermes.com We study whether households actually demand and value economic narratives — and how these narratives shape beliefs and understanding. Thread following below👇 1/10
- Reposted by Human Capital HCEO - CEHDBU Questrom is launching a new PhD Program in Business Economics focused on how markets and firms interact with public policy. Graduates will be ready for research and teaching roles in both business schools and econ departments.
- Reposted by Human Capital HCEO - CEHDFelice di vedere il nostro lavoro su La Voce: lavoce.info/archives/109...! 👶🏻👧🏼 Dai dati dell’#AssegnoUnico emergono forti disuguaglianze territoriali e sociali nella disabilità infantile in 🇮🇹. 🔗 Studio con Paola Biasi e Maria De Paola qui 👉🏻 ifs.org.uk/publications... #Disabilità #Infanzia #Italia
- 🧾NEW WP! New data, old divide 🧵 🇮🇹Our new @theifs.bsky.social WP "The #Geography of #Child #Disability in #Italy: New Evidence from Administrative Data" (w/ P Biasi & De Paola) uses administrative data on the 2024 Universal Child Allowance, covering 4m children under 10. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yk89t39e
- HCEO member Emily Nix et al. on the economics of dating the boss: breakups are costly! www.nber.org/papers/w34346
- New from HCEO member Janet Currie & Kate Musen: www.nber.org/papers/w34369
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- In a new working paper, HCEO member Amos Golan et al. outline an information-theoretic maximum entropy (ME) model that provides an alternative approach to finding solutions to partially identified models. hceconomics.uchicago.edu/research/wor...
- New work from HCEO member Corinne Low (@femonomics.bsky.social) and colleagues finds wide-ranging benefits for women who were taught negotiation skills as adolescents. www.nber.org/papers/w34339
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- Reposted by Human Capital HCEO - CEHD🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- A new study of the Abecedarian project from HCEO members Sylvi Kuperman, Frances Campbell, et al. suggests that ECE programs with child-centered activities and teacher-child interactions that improve students' verbal skills may have longer-term impacts. bit.ly/432cT2 bit.ly/432cT2 bit.ly/432cT2O
- @heckmanequation.bsky.social and Jin Zhou develop a new model to study the microdynamics of early childhood learning. With this approach, they study the weekly evolution of skill development using data from a successful home visiting program in China. (new in @nber.org). www.nber.org/papers/w34294
- New evidence from our partner @orladoyle.bsky.social shows that the Irish home visiting program Preparing for Life has lasting benefits. At age 14, adolescents in the high-treatment group had better cognitive skills & working memory, fewer attention problems, & lower obesity risk. bit.ly/4nJg1Zp
- Reposted by Human Capital HCEO - CEHDWhy Don't Struggling Students Do Their Homework? In a new study we use a field experiment to identify a structural model of learning. We find that low productivity, not low motivation, is the stronger predictor of academic struggles. Study is available here: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/framed...
- New from @nber.org: Study in Mexico shows moving away from violence to safer areas (in the context of drug wars) leads to academic gains for elementary-aged students. www.nber.org/papers/w34270
- New @nber.org working paper from HCEO member Janet Currie et al. finds that higher electric vehicle adoption improves air quality and leads to reductions in premature births, low birth weight, and asthma-related ER visits through age 5. www.nber.org/papers/w34278
- HCEO member Svetlana Pashchenk explores the relative importance of different motivations for savings over the life cycle in a new working paper with coauthor Ponpoje Porapakkarm. hceconomics.uchicago.edu/research/wor...
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- A new @nber.org working paper from HCEO member Parag Pathak and colleagues compares three different school choice admissions systems. www.nber.org/papers/w34207
- Labor force participation rebounded more slowly post-COVID in states hit harder by the pre-pandemic opioid crisis, HCEO member Nezih Guner shows in a new working paper. Slower recovery was linked to more people leaving the workforce due to disability. hceconomics.uchicago.edu/research/wor...
- Neighborhoods matter much less to a child’s success than what their parents do, @heckmanequation.bsky.social & Sadegh Eshaghnia argue, debunking the "ZIP code is destiny" idea. In reality, better outcomes are due to attributes & actions of parents who self-sort into neighborhoods. bit.ly/469WWIR
- Reposted by Human Capital HCEO - CEHDNew article out! With Laurenz Bärtsch, I examine the effects of a German parental leave reform. The reform increased maternal part-time work during the first 12 months after birth — but interestingly, we find no long-term impact on employment or wages.👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Interesting findings on quality of telemedicine vs. in-person care from HCEO member Paul Gertler and colleagues: www.nber.org/papers/w34185
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- New NBER working paper on optimal school system and curriculum design from HCEO member Parag Pathak (@prof_parag) and coauthor Glenn Ellison. www.nber.org/papers/w34091
- Policymakers must invest in programs that reflect children's contexts and which focus on the drivers of long-term success, HCEO's James J. Heckman (@heckmanequation.bsky.social) and Alison Baulos argue in this book extract. www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/feat...
- Don’t forget: "Parents' Day & Evidence on the Role of Partnership” webinar today at 2 p.m. Central. Professor Tamara McGavock and Dr. Richard Reeves will share evidence on the vital role parents play. Register here: uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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- ICYMI: New work from The Heckman Equation, Colleen P. Loughlin & Haihan Tian shows that participating in high school or college athletics & intermural sports has a positive impact on life outcomes such as HS & college graduation and wages after schooling is completed. www.nber.org/papers/w34046
- Interested in early intervention, family outcomes, supporting parents, or gender equality? Don’t miss this Heckman Equation webinar Monday, July 28. Professor Tamara McGavock and Dr. Richard Reeves will share evidence on the vital role parents play. Register here: uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- Head Start improves life outcomes because it builds multiple skills, HCEO’s @heckmanequation.bsky.social and @Alison Baulos tell Second Wave Michigan. Early learning within nurturing relationships builds skills that deliver positive outcomes throughout life. www.secondwavemedia.com/features/60-...
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- New from @heckmanequation.bsky.social Colleen P. Loughlin & Haihan Tian: Participating in high school or college athletics and intermural sports has a positive impact on life outcomes such as high school & college graduation and wages after schooling is completed. www.nber.org/papers/w34046
