TY  - JOUR
AU  - Heckman,James J.
AU  - Masterov,Dimitriy V.
TI  - The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13016
PY  - 2007
Y2  - April 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13016
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13016.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
James J. Heckman
Department of Economics
The University of Chicago
1126 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773/702-0634
Fax: 773/702-8490
E-Mail: jheckman@uchicago.edu

Dimitriy Masterov
Department of Economics
University of Michigan
107 Lorch Hall
611 Tappan Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
E-Mail: dvmaster@umich.edu
AB  - This paper presents a productivity argument for investing in disadvantaged young children. For such investment, there is no equity-efficiency tradeoff.
ER  -