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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 ...
The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College. At Chicago since 1973. Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development. Co-Director, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group. 2000 Nobel Laureate.
James J. Heckman has devoted his professional life to understanding the origins of major social and economic problems related to inequality, social mobility, discrimination, skill formation and regulation, and to devising and evaluating alternative strategies for addressing those problems.
James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, a Nobel Memorial Prize winner in economics and an expert in the economics of human development.
In 1958, the Superintendent of the local school district in Lakewood asked him to teach physics to a class of students chosen by competitive exam. Oppenheimer closely linked theory to evidence when he taught physics. Under his guidance, I learned the beauty of experimental science and the pleasure of matching theory to evidence.
James Heckman received the Prize in Economic Sciences for his development of theory and methods used in the analysis of individual or household behavior. His work in selective samples led him to develop methods (such as the Heckman correction) for overcoming statistical sample-selection problems.
James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he has served since 1973. In 2000, he shared the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with Daniel McFadden.
