The Faculty
James Heckman
The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development; Co-Director, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group
Area of Study
Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
Center for Latin American Studies
Committee on Quantitative Research Methods in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
James Heckman
The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development; Co-Director, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working GroupProfessor Heckman, a 2000 recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, has research interests in inequality, social mobility and economic opportunity; labor economics; lifecycle dynamics of skill formation; developmental origins of health; microeconometrics; abductive inference; and causal models rooted in economic theory.
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