Profile Major Works Resources

James J. Heckman, 1944-

 

Microeconomist and econometrician at Chicago.

James Heckman won the Nobel Memorial prize in 2000, shared with Daniel McFadden  

 

  


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Major Works of  James J. Heckman

  • "Shadow Wages, Market Wages and Labor Supply", 1974, Econometrica
  • "The Common Structure of Statistical Models of Truncation, Sample Selection and Limited Dependent Variables and a Simple Estimator for Such Models", 1976, Annals of Econ and Social Measurement [nber]
  • "A Life Cycle Model of Earnings, Learning and Consumption", 1976, JPE
  • "Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error", 1979, Econometrica
  • "New Methods for Estimating Labor Supply Functions" with T. MaCurdy, 1981, in R. Ehrenberg, ed., Research in Labor Economics
  • "A method for minimizing the impact of distributional assumptions in econometric models for duration data", with B. Singer, 1984, Econometrica
  • "Continuous vs. Episodic Change: The Impact of Affirmative Action and Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks", with J. Donohue, 1991, JEL
  • "The Nonequivalence of High School Equivalents", with S. Cameron, 1993, JLabE
  • "Lessons from the Bell Curve", 1995, JPE
  • "Matching as an economic evaluation estimator: Evidence from evaluating a job training programme" with H. Ichimura and P.E. Todd, 1997, RES
  • "Detecting Discrimination", 1998, JEP [pdf]
  • "The Economics and Econometrics of Active Labor Market Programs" with R. LaLonde and J. Smith, 1999, in O. Ashenfelter and D. Card, eds Handbook of Labor Economics
  • "Microdata, Heterogeneity and the Evaluation of Public Policy", 2000 [nobel]
  • "Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling" with P. Carneiro, 2002, EJ
  • "The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children" with D.V. Masterov, 2007, Rev of Ag Econ [pdf, nber]
  • "The American Family in Black and WhiteL A post-racial strategy for improving skills to promote equality", 2011 [pdf]
  • "Lifelines for Poor Children", 2013, NY Times op-ed

 


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Resources on James J. Heckman

  • James Heckman's homepage at Center for the Economics of Human Development, Chicago - incl. CV
  • 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize, website: press release, facts, autobiography, lecture
  • Heckman profile at HeckmanEquation.org
  • "Interview with Heckman" article at Region, FRB Minneapolis, 2007
  • "Interview with James heckman" by John Cassidy, New Yorker, 2010 [online]
  • Heckman publications at NBER
  • Heckman papers at ideas/repec
  • Heckmann at EJW [pdf]
  • "Teach your children well: the economic case for pre-school" by Joey Waldfogel, Slate, 2007 [online]
  • "James Heckman: In early childhood education, ‘Quality really matters’" by Dylan Matthew, Washington Post, 2013 [online]
  • Heckman entry at Concise Encycl. of Economics, LibertyFund
  • Wikipedia

 

 
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