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 examines the case for randomized controlled trials in economics. I revisit my previous paper […]
This paper develops and applies a Bayesian approach to Exploratory Factor Analysis that improves on ad […]
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This paper estimates the marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by […]
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Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization […]
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The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status […]
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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 compares the economic questions addressed by instrumental variables estimators with those addressed by structural […]
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This paper develops methods for evaluating marginal policy changes. We characterize how the effects of marginal […]
This chapter studies the microeconometric treatment-effect and structural approaches to dynamic policy evaluation. First, we discuss […]
This paper presents the econometric approach to causal modeling. It is motivated by policy problems. New […]