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James Joseph Heckman (born April 19, 1944) is an American economist and Nobel laureate who serves as the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, where he is also a professor at the College, a professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, Director of the Center for the Economics of Human ...
James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, a Nobel Memorial Prize winner in economics and an expert in the economics of human development.
At Chicago since 1973. Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development. Co-Director, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group. 2000 Nobel Laureate. John Bates Clark Medal Winner, 1983.
James J. Heckman has devoted his professional life to understanding the origins of major social and economic problems related to inequality, social mobility, discrimination, skill formation and regulation, and to devising and evaluating alternative strategies for addressing those problems.
Modern labor economics as developed by Gary Becker and Jacob Mincer provided an exciting new intellectual framework for interpreting the new microdata. I was particularly struck by the simplicity and elegance of Jacob Mincer’s seminal paper on estimating the labor supply of women.
James Heckman received the Prize in Economic Sciences for his development of theory and methods used in the analysis of individual or household behavior. His work in selective samples led him to develop methods (such as the Heckman correction) for overcoming statistical sample-selection problems.
Articles 1–20. Professor of Economics at University of Chicago, American Bar Foundation Research Fellow - Cited by 256,599 - labor economics - microeconomics - soft skills...
