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The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.

~James Heckman

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I remember that, one day, I was visiting one training center in the 1990s that was teaching people how to fix Volkswagen engines from the 1960s, which were no longer sold. So you were training people on a skill that had zero value. The reason is that they hadn't received any new equipment in 20 years.

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The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.

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There's no question that we have great value on the sanctity of the family, and there are a lot of competing visions about exactly how we teach a set of values and we teach skills to our children, especially in the early years when they're really forming their personalities, their personas, really.

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Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

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I'm instinctively cautious because I'm an academic.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: April 19th, 1944

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