Giving Kids a Fair Chance

Name: Giving Kids a Fair Chance
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ISBN: 9780262019132

ISBN-10: 0262019132

ISBN-13: 9780262019132

Edition: 2013

Authors: James J. Heckman

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In Giving Kids a Fair Chance, Nobel Prize-winning economist JamesHeckman argues that the accident of birth is the greatest source of inequality in America today.Children born into disadvantage are, by the time they start kindergarten, already at risk ofdropping out of school, teen pregnancy, crime, and a lifetime of low-wage work. This is bad for allthose born into disadvantage and bad for American society.Current social andeducation policies directed toward children focus on improving cognition, yet success in liferequires more than smarts. Heckman calls for a refocus of social policy toward early childhoodinterventions designed to enhance both cognitive abilities and such non-cognitive…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/22/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 148
Size: 4.50" wide x 7.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He was a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in 2000. He is the coauthor (with Alan B. Krueger) of Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies? (MIT Press).