Increasing opportunity and hope for our children

An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That is, do genes determine a child’s success in life, or is it the environment in which that child is raised? Or, even more fundamentally, is intelligence genetic, or can education increase IQ? James J. Heckman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist from the University of Chicago, poses his own variant of this question. It’s not an issue of nature versus nurture, but rather what kind of nurture. In a departure from what one usually expects to hear from an economist, Heckman’s life’s work is about the importance of...

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