James Heckman
| James Joseph Heckman | |
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| Born |
April 19, 1944 Chicago, Illinois |
| Nationality | United States |
| Website | cehd |
| Institution |
University of Chicago University of Southern California University of Chicago Law School |
| Field | Microeconomics |
| School or tradition |
Chicago School of Economics |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University Colorado College |
| Doctoral advisor |
Harry H. Kelejian Stanley Warren Black |
| Doctoral students |
Thomas MaCurdy Christopher Flinn Fwu-Ranq Chang Pedro Carneiro Peter Savelyev |
| Influences |
Albert Rees Gary Becker Jacob Mincer |
| Influenced |
Stephen Cameron Carolyn Heinrich Werner G. Krebs |
| Contributions | Statistical analysis of individual behavior Heckman correction |
| Awards |
John Bates Clark Medal (1983) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (2000) Frisch Medal (2014) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
James Joseph Heckman (born April 19, 1944) is an American economist and Nobel laureate. He is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, Professor of Law at the Law School, and director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development at the University of Chicago, a senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Heckman shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2000, with Daniel McFadden, for his pioneering work in econometrics and microeconomics. He is considered to be among the most influential economists in the world.
Heckman was born to John Jacob Heckman and Bernice Irene Medley in Chicago, Illinois. He received his B.A. in mathematics from Colorado College (1965) and his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University (1971), under the supervision of Albert Rees.
He served as an assistant professor at Columbia University before he moved to the University of Chicago, in 1973.
In addition to serving as the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor and director of the Economics Research Center in the department of economics, Heckman is also a professor of law at the Law School and a professor in the Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago where he is the director of both the Center for Social Program Evaluation and Center for the Study of Childhood Development. He also serves as a member of the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics's Research Council. Heckman has held many appointments at other institutions and notably served as the Distinguished Chair of Microeconometrics at University College London (2004-2008), a Professor of Science and Society at University College Dublin (2005-2014), and as the Alfred Cowles Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yale University (2008-2011). His current appointments include Presidential Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Southern California's Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics (2015-) and International Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (2014-).
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