23 Facts About James Heckman

James Joseph Heckman was born on April 19,1944 and is a Nobel Memorial in Economic Sciences Prize-winning American economist at the University of Chicago, where he is The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy; Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development ; and Co-Director of Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group.

James Heckman is Professor of Law at the Law School, a senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

In 2000, Heckman shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Daniel McFadden, for his pioneering work in econometrics and microeconomics.

James Heckman is noted for his contributions to selection bias and self-selection in quantitative analysis in the social sciences, especially the James Heckman correction, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Economics.

James Heckman is well known for his empirical research in labor economics and his scholarship on the efficacy of early childhood education programs.

James Heckman was born to John Jacob James Heckman and Bernice Irene Medley in Chicago, Illinois.

James Heckman served as an assistant professor at Columbia University before he moved to the University of Chicago, in 1973.

James Heckman has been a dissertation advisor for over 70 students, including Carolyn Heinrich, George Borjas, Stephen Cameron, Mark Rosenzweig, and Russ Roberts.

James Heckman serves as a member of the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics's Research Council.

James Heckman has held many appointments at other institutions and notably served as the Distinguished Chair of Microeconometrics at University College London, a Professor of Science and Society at University College Dublin, and as the Alfred Cowles Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yale University.

James Heckman is noted for his contributions to selection bias and self-selection analysis, especially James Heckman correction, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Economics.

James Heckman is well known for his empirical research in labor economics, particularly regarding the efficacy of early childhood education programs.

James Heckman's work has been devoted to the development of a scientific basis for economic policy evaluation, with special emphasis on models of individuals and disaggregated groups, and the problems and possibilities created by heterogeneity, diversity, and unobserved counterfactual states.

James Heckman developed a body of new econometric tools that address these issues.

James Heckman's research has given policymakers important new insights into areas such as education, jobtraining, the importance of accounting for general equilibrium in the analysis of labor markets, anti-discrimination law, and civil rights.

James Heckman demonstrated a strong causal effect of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in promoting African-American economic progress.

James Heckman has recently demonstrated that the high school dropout rate is increasing in the US.

James Heckman has studied the economic benefits of sorting in the labor market, the ineffectiveness of active labor market programs, and the economic returns to education.

James Heckman is currently conducting new social experiments on early childhood interventions and reanalyzing old experiments.

James Heckman is studying the emergence of the underclass in the US and Western Europe.

James Heckman is currently co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy.

James Heckman is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

James Heckman is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the Society of Labor Economics, the American Statistical Association, and the International Statistical Institute.