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James Heckman

1944 - Today

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James Joseph Heckman (born April 19, 1944) is an American economist and Nobel laureate who serves as the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, where he is also a professor at the College, a professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD), and Co-Director of Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) Global Working Group. He is also a professor of law at the Law School, a senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation, and a research associate at the NBER. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 1983, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2000, which he shared with Daniel McFadden. He is known principally for his pioneering work in econometrics and microeconomics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Heckman has received more than 405,661 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). James Heckman is the 143rd most popular economist (up from 155th in 2019), the 2,001st most popular biography from United States (up from 2,279th in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, James Heckman ranks 143 out of 414. Before him are Clive Granger, James Mirrlees, Robert Fogel, Dani Rodrik, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play. After him are Vernon L. Smith, Gustav von Schmoller, Christopher A. Pissarides, Bengt Holmström, Jeffrey Sachs, and William Beveridge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, James Heckman ranks 148. Before him are Willem van Hanegem, Christian Boltanski, Kiri Te Kanawa, Chung Hong-won, John Entwistle, and Jan Guillou. After him are Michel Polnareff, Alice Walker, Oleg Yankovsky, Mary Robinson, Carlos Pace, and Everaldo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Heckman ranks 2,001 out of 20,380. Before him are Eartha Kitt (1927), Hayden White (1928), William Halsey Jr. (1882), Abner Doubleday (1819), Margaret Sanger (1879), and William H. Seward (1801). After him are Jeff Koons (1955), Rhea Perlman (1948), Archie Hahn (1880), Alice Walker (1944), Alan Menken (1949), and Marion Ramsey (1947).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, James Heckman ranks 45. Before him are Alan Greenspan (1926), George Stigler (1911), Eugene Fama (1939), Christopher A. Sims (1942), Robert C. Merton (1944), and Robert Fogel (1926). After him are Vernon L. Smith (1927), Jeffrey Sachs (1954), Robert F. Engle (1942), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), Peter Diamond (1940), and John Bates Clark (1847).

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