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Also known as James Joseph Heckman, James J Heckman

American economist

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Works
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  • Evaluating Social Programs

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Type
Person
Country
BE
Active from
1986-11-26

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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
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date of birth
1944-04-19
Commons category
James Heckman
Erdős number
4
name in native language
James Heckman
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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.

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