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Vinony catalogs James Heckman in its Nobel Prize in Economics collection (99 entries). It also appears in American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Vinony's link graph records 373 inbound references to James Heckman, and connects out to Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Doctor of Philosophy.
Vinony files it under 1944 births, 20th-century American economists and 20th-century American educational theorists.
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- 2
Top works
- Evaluating Social Programs
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- Total plays
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Key facts
- Born
- James Joseph Heckman , ( 1944-04-19 ) April 19, 1944 (age 82) , Chicago, Illinois , US
- Alma mater
- Colorado College ( BA ), Princeton University ( PhD )
- Thesis
- Three Essays on the Supply of Labor and the Demand for Goods (1971)
- Doctoral advisors
- Harry H. Kelejian , Stanley Warren Black
- Influences
- Albert Rees , Gary Becker , Jacob Mincer
- Discipline
- Microeconomics
- School or tradition
- Chicago School of Economics
- Institutions
- University of Chicago , University of Southern California , Columbia University , Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Doctoral students
- Carolyn Heinrich , George Borjas , Petra Todd , Stephen Cameron , Mark Rosenzweig , Russ Roberts
- Notable ideas
- Heckman correction
- Awards
- John Bates Clark Medal (1983), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (2000), Frisch Medal (2014)
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2000
“for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples”
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- Official website
- heckmanequation.org
- Image
- James Heckman.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1944-04-19
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- James Heckman
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- www.accessecon.com/pubs/eb/default.aspx?page=editorial&ID=743
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Encyclopedic overview
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 Development (CEHD), and co-director of Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) Global Working Group. He is also a professor of law at the Law School, a senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation, and a research associate at the NBER. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 1983, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2000, which he shared with Daniel McFadden. He is known principally for his pioneering work in econometrics and microeconomics.
Heckman is noted for his contributions to selection bias and self-selection in quantitative analysis in the social sciences, especially the Heckman correction, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Economics. He is also well known for his empirical research in labor economics and his scholarship on the efficacy of early childhood education programs. As of June 2024, according to RePEc, he is the third-most influential economist in the world.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “James Heckman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.