James Heckman

James Joseph Heckman ( born April 19, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American economist. He grew up in a suburb of Denver, where he also went to school. He received in 2000 with Daniel McFadden the Economic Nobel Prize for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples.

Life

Heckman studied mathematics at Colorado College, where he completed a BA from. In 1971 he received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in economics. First, Heckman was a lecturer at Columbia University; Since 1973 he teaches at the University of Chicago. In addition to his Department conducts Heckman also the Economics Research Center and the Center for Social Program Evaluation at the Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy. In 2004 he was appointed to a Chair of Microeconometrics at University College London. 2006 he was appointed University College Dublin professor.

Heckman examined in the microeconomics of decision behavior of individuals, households and businesses. He developed a simple method for the detection and correction of errors and misinterpretations of selection processes.

He wrote several papers on the impact of social programs on society and the economy; as he examined about the results of the High / Scope Perry Preschool Project, which was compared the impact can have a preschool on the later life.

Works

  • Sample selection bias as a specification error. Econometrica, 1979, pp. 153-161.
  • The common structure of statistical models of truncation, sample selection and limited dependent variables and a simple estimator for seeking models. Annals of Economic and Social Measurement, Volume 5, number 4, NBER, 1976. 475-492.
  • The economics and econometrics of active labor market programs. ( with Robert J. LaLonde and Jeffrey A. Smith) Handbook of labor economics 3 (1999): 1865-2097.
  • Evaluating Human Capital Policy. Princeton University Press. (2004)
  • Law and Employment: Lessons From Latin America and the Caribbean. University of Chicago Press. (2003)
  • Incentives in government bureaucracies: Can incentives in bureaucracies Emulate Market Efficiency? . Brookings. (2004)
  • Giving kids a fair chance. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2013, ISBN 978-0-262019132.
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