James J. Heckman
Research Professor
- 750 N. Lake Shore Drive
- 4th Floor
- Chicago, IL 60611
Joint appointment
Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago
Education
Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University
Research focus
Human development and lifecycle skill formation, with a special emphasis on the economics of early childhood. Research has provided policymakers with new insights into such areas as education, job-training programs, minimum-wage legislation, anti-discrimination law, and civil rights
Projects
- World Justice Project
- Latest finding: Apr 23, 2008
- The World Justice Project, sponsored by the American Bar Association, seeks to broaden and institutionalize the network of organizations and individuals committed to advancing the rule of law. The…
- The Foundation and Application of Disparate Impact Doctrine
- Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008
- The goals of this project include (1) the development of models and methods for detecting discrimination due to disparate treatment and disparate impact; (2) the examination of the extension of…
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Publications
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“Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs, Part III:
Dynamics and Social Experiments”
- Elsevier
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“Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs, Part II:
Using Economic Choice Theory and the Marginal
Treatment Effect to Organize Alternative Econometric
Estimators”
- Elsevier
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“Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs, Part I:
Causal Models, Structural Models and Econometric
Policy Evaluation”
- Elsevier
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Presentations
- The Technology of Building Human Capacities: Lessons
for Public Policy
- May 2007
- Investing in Disadvantaged Young Children Is Good
Economics and Good Public Policy
- May 2007
- The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of
Human Capability Formation
- May 2007
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