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 develops and applies a Bayesian approach to Exploratory Factor Analysis that improves on ad […]
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This paper estimates marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by different […]
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The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status […]
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We analyze equilibria in hedonic economies and study conditions that lead to identification of structural preference […]
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Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization […]
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This paper compares the economic questions addressed by instrumental variables estimators with those addressed by structural […]
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This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children’s cognitive and noncognitive skills. Skills are […]
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This paper develops methods for evaluating marginal policy changes. We characterize how the effects of marginal […]
We consider the identification of the average treatment effect in models with continuous endogenous variables whose […]
This paper presents the econometric approach to causal modeling. It is motivated by policy problems. New […]