International Fellows
James Heckman
University of Chicago
James is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago.
He 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.
Selected Publications
This paper investigates the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic […]
We analyze equilibria in hedonic economies and study conditions that lead to identification of structural preference […]
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This paper considers the identification and estimation of hedonic models. We establish that technology and preferences […]
This article uses factor models to identify and estimate the distributions of counterfactuals. We extend LISREL […]
We consider the identification of the average treatment effect in models with continuous endogenous variables whose […]
Economic models for hedonic markets characterize the pricing of bundles of attributes and the demand and […]
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Economic models for hedonic markets characterize the pricing of bundles of attributes and the demand and […]
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This paper considers the identification and estimation of hedonic models. We establish that technology and preferences […]