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
Removing the veil of ignorance in assessing the distributional impacts of social policy
This paper summarizes our recent research on evaluating the distributional consequences of social programs. This research […]