The Heckman Equation Project is supported by the Irving Harris Foundation, The Children's Initiative: A Project of the J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation, the McCormick Foundation, and an anonymous funder.
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Education Is All in Your Mind
By Richard E. Nisbett
The New York Times
February 08, 2009
James Heckman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist at the University of Chicago, has estimated that for every dollar spent on a prekindergarten like Perry, $8 has been gained in higher incomes for participants and in savings on the costs of extra schooling, crime and welfare.
Out of the Crisis
By White, B. Joseph and Cornelia Grumman
Chicago Tribune
January 23, 2009
Obama's $10 Billion Promise Stirs Hope in Early Education
By Dillon, Sam
The New York Times
December 17, 2008
And the $10 billion Mr. Obama has pledged for early childhood education would amount to the
largest new federal initiative for young children since Head Start began in 1965. Now, Head Start is a $7 billion federal program serving about 900,000 preschoolers.
Early Childhood Education Sensible
By Basloe, Marsha
Durham Herald Sun
October 12, 2008
"Helping our youngest children develop their life and learning skills results in better citizens and more productive workers," they say. One of their studies found that "the potential annual return from focused, high-quality early childhood development programs might be as high as 16 percent (inflation adjusted)."
The Biggest Issue
By Brooks, David
The New York Times. Opinion
July 29, 2008
I.Q. matters, but Heckman points to equally important traits that start and then build from those early years: motivation levels, emotional stability, self-control and sociability. He uses common sense to intuit what these traits are, but on this subject economists have a lot to learn from developmental psychologists.
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