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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 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

Among economists, James Heckman ranks 157 out of 315Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, James Heckman ranks 150Before 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.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Heckman ranks 2,281 out of 18,182Before 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).

Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, James Heckman ranks 51Before 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).