Quotes by James Heckman - Page 1

My family life is a deep source of satisfaction.
James Heckman / Economist
Family Life
Life Is
My Family
Satisfaction
Life Is A
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I'm instinctively cautious because I'm an academic.
James Heckman / Economist
Academic
Cautious
Instinctively
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Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.
James Heckman / Economist
Creating
Gaps
Play
Reducing
Schooling
After
Grade
Minor
Plays
Role
Second
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I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.
James Heckman / Economist
College
Liberal Arts
Physics
Background
Arts
Liberal
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We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.
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Giving
Way
Who We Are
Possibilities
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Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.
James Heckman / Economist
Running
Children
Disadvantaged
Inequality
Investment
Long
Long Run
Reduce
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It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.
James Heckman / Economist
Birth
Foundation
Readiness
Invest
Imperative
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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 / Economist
Labor
Lifetime
Theory
Provided
Scientific
Unite
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Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas.
James Heckman / Economist
Chicago
Frank
Papers
Reading
Discussions
Encourages
Workshop
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There is a responsibility that goes with winning the Nobel Prize, and the responsibility is that if you have a forum, you should use it wisely.
James Heckman / Economist
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Forum
Wisely
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Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth.
James Heckman / Economist
Answers
Bigs
Giving
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Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that you've grasped the truth.
James Heckman / Economist
Big Questions
Certainty
Grasped
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I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating, and in college debating, and interested in contemporary events.
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Contemporary
Debating
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Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.
James Heckman / Economist
Teacher
Educational
School
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Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives.
James Heckman / Economist
Jobs
Ability
Attributes
Doors
Openness
Persist
Self
Self Control
Job
Door
Engage
Lead
Plan
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Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more informed usually make wiser decisions.
James Heckman / Economist
Character
Children
Cognitive
Inseparable
Motivated
Skills
Wiser
Dynamic
Informed
Work Together
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I think race is very important. I think generally speaking, we've to face the general problem, which is that we are seeing more children coming out of families which simply don't give them adequate resources for their development.
James Heckman / Economist
Adequate
Resources
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The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed along side their more advantaged peers
James Heckman / Economist
Education
Opportunity
America
Children
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I remember sitting there on my father's couch or my mother's couch, listening to this lecture about how there were two groups and we had to be separated. We've come a long way from this kind of open racism. And I think it's wonderful.
James Heckman / Economist
Groups
Long Way
Racism
Couch
Lecture
Separated
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The separate water foundations, park benches, bathrooms and restaurants of the Jim Crow South startled me. These experiences motivated my lifelong study of the status of African Americans and the sources of improvement in that status.
James Heckman / Economist
Crow
Improvement
Jim Crow
Lifelong
Motivated
Restaurants
Study
Water
African
African Americans
Bench
Experiences
Foundations
Jim
Park
Sources
Startled
Status
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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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Decades
Lessons
Live Life
Broad
Effective
Scholars
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Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean perseverance, motivation, self-esteem, and hard work.
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Adverse
Effects
Hard Work
Intervention
Motivation
Perseverance
Self Esteem
Traits
Family Work Hard Work
Enrich
Environments
Programs
Largest
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The traditional story of economists has been to say education explains what the returns are to school. I say, 'Okay, that's fine, but what explains the education? How much is just a matter of my giving you a poor kid versus a rich kid?'
James Heckman / Economist
Okay
Traditional
Versus
Economists
Explains
Returns
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The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.
James Heckman / Economist
Achievement
Cognitive
Educational
Establishment
Flourishing
Significant
Skills
Wages
Aspects
Equally
Measured
Prized
Required
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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.
James Heckman / Economist
Competing
Great Value
Sanctity
Skills
Teach
Early Years
Exactly
Forming
No Question
Personalities
Question
Value
Visions
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Some kids win the lottery at birth; far too many don't - and most people have a hard time catching up over the rest of their lives. Children raised in disadvantaged environments are not only much less likely to succeed in school or in society, but they are also much less likely to be healthy adults.
James Heckman / Economist
Birth
Catching
Disadvantaged
Healthy
Lottery
Raised
Succeed
Adult
Time Society People
Win
Environments
Rest
Hard Time
Likely
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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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Zero
Engines
Equipment
Visiting
Center
Received
Skill
Sold
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For a variety of reasons, I have always felt myself an outsider. I don't know how to classify myself in economics. I am a loner. I do not like groupthink, which, if anything, has become more important in economics. In addition, a lot of the values I hold are not the mainstream values in the profession.
James Heckman / Economist
Mainstream
Profession
Variety
Myself Always I Am
Addition
Classify
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You have kids growing up in some of the worst circumstances financially, living in some of the worst ghettos, and they succeed. They succeed because an adult figure, typically a mother, maybe a grandmother, nourishes the kid, supports the kid, protects the kid, encourages the kid to succeed. It's as if the environment never happened.
James Heckman / Economist
Circumstances
Grandmother
Succeed
Encourages
Financially
Nourishes
Protects
Supports
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