1944 - Today
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 364,254 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). James Heckman is the 157th most popular economist (up from 160th in 2019), the 2,281st most popular biography from United States (up from 2,457th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Economist.
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Among economists, James Heckman ranks 157 out of 315. Before him are Kenneth E. Boulding, Michał Kalecki, Dani Rodrik, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Daniel McFadden, and Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay. After him are Oskar R. Lange, Bengt Holmström, Robert F. Engle, Frank Knight, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Piero Sraffa.
1910 - 1993
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 151
1899 - 1970
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 152
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 153
1960 - Present
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 154
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 155
1712 - 1759
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 156
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 157
1904 - 1965
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 158
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 159
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 160
1885 - 1972
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 161
1949 - Present
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 162
1898 - 1983
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 163
Among people born in 1944, James Heckman ranks 150. Before him are Pat Martino, Rocky Johnson, Mary Robinson, Igor Mitoraj, Sirhan Sirhan, and Marie-Christine Barrault. After him are Michael Rosbash, Peter Mayhew, Luis Ladaria Ferrer, Geneviève Grad, Alvin Lee, and Willem van Hanegem.
1944 - 2021
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 144
1944 - 2020
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 145
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 146
1944 - 2014
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 147
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 148
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 149
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 150
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 151
1944 - 2019
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 152
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 153
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 154
1944 - 2013
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 155
1944 - Present
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 156
Among people born in United States, James Heckman ranks 2,281 out of 18,182. Before him are Michael Parks (1940), Geraldine Page (1924), Estelle Getty (1923), Kate Jackson (1948), Ellery Harding Clark (1874), and E. Howard Hunt (1918). After him are Jelly Roll Morton (1890), Patricia Cornwell (1956), Raymond E. Feist (1945), Edmond Hamilton (1904), Marvin Harris (1927), and Andrew Wyeth (1917).
1940 - 2017
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 2,275
1924 - 1987
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 2,276
1923 - 2008
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 2,277
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 2,278
1874 - 1949
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 2,279
1918 - 2007
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 2,280
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 2,281
1890 - 1941
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 2,282
1956 - Present
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 2,283
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 2,284
1904 - 1977
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 2,285
1927 - 2001
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 2,286
1917 - 2009
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 2,287
Among economists born in United States, James Heckman ranks 51. Before him are Robert C. Merton (1944), Jeremy Rifkin (1945), William F. Sharpe (1934), Christopher A. Sims (1942), John Bates Clark (1847), and Daniel McFadden (1937). After him are Robert F. Engle (1942), Frank Knight (1885), Paul Milgrom (1948), Peter Diamond (1940), Ben Bernanke (1953), and Hyman Minsky (1919).
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 45
1945 - Present
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 46
1934 - Present
HPI: 57.74
Rank: 47
1942 - Present
HPI: 57.45
Rank: 48
1847 - 1938
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 49
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 50
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 51
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 52
1885 - 1972
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 53
1948 - Present
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 54
1940 - Present
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 55
1953 - Present
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 56
1919 - 1996
HPI: 54.59
Rank: 57