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Missouri Business Leaders Summit on Early Childhood Investment

James Heckman, University of Chicago

March 8, 2010 (8:44)

Excerpts from the keynote address by James Heckman, the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, delivered on Nov. 16, 2009, at the Missouri Business Leaders Summit on Early Childhood Investment. He makes the economic case for investing in disadvantaged children.