Giving Kids a Fair Chance
Book description
A top economist weighs in on one of the most urgent questions of our times: What is the source of inequality and what is the remedy?
In Giving Kids a Fair Chance, Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman argues that the accident of birth is the greatest source of inequality in…
Why read it?
1 author picked Giving Kids a Fair Chance as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love this book because it summarizes in a few pages a lot of scientific work on a very slippery and thorny topic: early education.
It is not a self-help book; it does not provide detailed advice to parents. It rather demonstrates three principles that can inspire policy as well as educators’ actions.
First, people’s skills and personalities are not determined only by genes, but can be changed as the environment interacts with genes.
Second, inequality due to the birth lottery is not diminishing in the US, but is rather increasing.
Third, investing in adolescent education could enlarge inequality, whereas…
From Maurizio's list on human development in advanced economies.
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