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

Nonparametric estimation of nonadditive hedonic models

We analyze equilibria in hedonic economies and study conditions that lead to identification of structural preference […]

James Heckman, Rosa Matzkin, Lars Nesheim
1 March 2005 | CWP03/05

Latest version

Nonparametric estimation of nonadditive hedonic models
James Heckman, Rosa Matzkin, Lars Nesheim
30 September 2010 | Journal Article
Instrumental variables, local instrumental variables and control functions

We consider the identification of the average treatment effect in models with continuous endogenous variables whose […]

Jean-Pierre Florens, James Heckman, Costas Meghir, Edward Vytlacil
5 July 2002 | CWP15/02
Identification and estimation of hedonic models

This paper considers the identification and estimation of hedonic models. We establish that technology and preferences […]

Ivar Ekeland, James Heckman, Lars Nesheim
1 January 2002 | CWP07/02

Latest version

Identification and estimation of hedonic models
Ivar Ekeland, James Heckman, Lars Nesheim
1 January 2004 | Journal Article
Identifying hedonic models

Economic models for hedonic markets characterize the pricing of bundles of attributes and the demand and […]

Ivar Ekeland, James Heckman, Lars Nesheim
1 January 2002 | CWP06/02

Latest version

Identifying hedonic models
Ivar Ekeland, James Heckman, Lars Nesheim
1 May 2002 | Journal Article