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Jamaican Study Shows Early Childhood Stimulation Benefits Last

Study Shows Lasting Gains from Early Childhood Stimulation in Jamaica.

In case you missed it:

Learn about approaches to measuring unfair inequality in this recent lecture by Paul Hufe, winner of the 2021 HCEO Dissertation Prize.

Research Spotlight: Lessons from Denmark about Inequality and Social Mobility

New research from HCEO Director James Heckman and MIP network member Rasmus Landerso shows that despite profound differences in social policies, inequality by family background is similar in the US and Denmark.

RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: CHILDREN'S EARLY SKILLS

Children who are older when they start school do better–and their early success leads their parents to invest more in their education with lasting benefits.

Research Networks

Op Ed: Flourishing Fundamentals—Families, Opportunities, and Data-Driven Narratives

3 Questions with Carol Graham

Research Spotlight: ‘Advocacy Gap’ Helps Explain Black-White Differences in Career Recognition

Research Spotlight: ‘Advocacy Gap’ Helps Explain Black-White Differences in Career Recognition

Research Spotlight: Children’s Early Skills Boost Parental Beliefs, Educational Investments, and Long-Run Outcomes

Research Spotlight: The Great Gatsby Curve: Probing the Mechanisms Behind Inequality and Its Persistence

The Menopause "Penalty"

Early Childhood Interventions (ECI), Health Inequality (HI), Markets (M)

Gains from Alternative Assignment? Evidence from a Two-Sided Teacher Market

The Equilibrium Effects of State-Mandated Minimum Staff-to-Child Ratios

Canceled: HCEO-briq Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality Bonn (SSSI 2020 Bonn)

Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality, Bergen (SSSI 2019 Bergen)

Polygenic Prediction and its Application in the Social Sciences

Social Interactions and Education

Development Economics and Market Design

Masters-Level Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality 2018, Chicago

Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality Bonn (SSSI 2018 Bonn)

Student Training Summer Seminar at Peking University, Beijing

Faculty Collaborative Seminar 2018

Measuring and Assessing Skills: Real-Time Measurement of Cognition, Personality, and Behavior

The Gut Microbiome in Human Biology and Health: New Opportunities for the Study of Health Disparities

Understanding Human Capital Formation and its Determinants

Workshop on Social Interactions and Crime

HCEO Dissertation Prize Lunch Lecture: Moved to Opportunity

NES-HCEO Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality (SSSI Moscow)

Fifth Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality Chicago (SSSI Chicago 2017)

Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality Guangzhou (SSSI 2017 Guangzhou at Jinan University)

Conference on Human Capital and Financial Frictions

Measuring and Assessing Skills 2017

Conference on Genetics and Social Science

Workshop on the Maternal Environment

Workshop on Human Capital Formation and Family Economics

Asian Family in Transition Conference on Migration

Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality Bonn (SSSI 2016 Bonn)

Market Design Perspectives on Inequality

Fourth Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality Chicago (SSSI 2016 Chicago)

Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality Guangzhou (SSSI 2016 Guangzhou at Jinan University)

Microeconomics of Life Course Inequality: A Tale of Two Tails and the Middle Too

Human Capital and Inequality Conference

Understanding Inequality and What to Do About It

Conference on Measuring and Assessing Skills

Third Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality Chicago (SSSI 2015 Chicago)

Third Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality: Beijing 2015

2015 CEAR-HCEO-MOVE Workshop on Family Economics

The Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Identity and Personality

Conference on Genetics and Behavior

Pay for Success Social Impact Finance: South Carolina Home Visiting to Improve Health and Early Childhood Outcomes

Pay For Success Social Impact Finance: Salt Lake City Pre-K Project

Pay For Success Social Impact Finance: Theory and Practice

Second Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality (SSSI 2013)

Pierre-André Chiappori

Dean Corbae

Flávio Cunha

Mariacristina De Nardi

Angela Duckworth

Robert Dugger

Armin Falk

Nezih Guner

James J. Heckman

Joseph Kable

Tim Kautz

Scott Kominers

Rachel Kranton

Christopher Kuzawa

Lance Lochner