The Economics of Investing in Children: The Role of Cognitive and Non–Cognitive Skills
James J. Heckman
Thursday, 11 Oct 2007 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and winner of the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (with Daniel McFadden). His recent research deals with such issues as evaluation of social programs, econometric models of discrete choice and longitudinal data, the economics of the labor market, and alternative models of the distribution of income. Heckman has been the director of the Center for Social Program Evaluation, Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, at the University of Chicago since 1973. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the John Bates Clark Award of the American Economic Association, the Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Achievement in Labor Economics, the University College Dublin Ulysses Medal, and the Aigner award from the Journal of Econometrics. The T.W. Schultz Lecture.Cosponsored By:
- Economics
- T.W. Schultz Endowed Lecture Fund
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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