詹姆斯·J·赫克曼（James J. Heckman）是亨利·舒尔茨（Henry Shultz）杰出的经济学和公共政策服务教授，芝加哥大学人类发展经济中心主任。赫克曼有学士学位（1965年）在科罗拉多学院的数学学业和硕士学位（1968年）和博士学位。（1971年），普林斯顿大学经济学。自1973年以来，他一直在芝加哥大学的经济系任职。他是哈里斯公共政策学院的创始人之一，在那里他也有任命。自1991年以来，他一直是美国酒吧基金会的研究员。2010年，他共同创立了人力资本和经济机会全球工作组，这是一个由400多名学者组成的全球网络，致力于衡量和解决不平等和经济机会的问题。2014年5月，他在芝加哥大学成立了人类发展经济中心。


他致力于了解与不平等，社会流动性，歧视，劳动力市场技能和监管的形成以及设计和应用经济上可解释的经验策略理解和解决这些问题有关的主要社会和经济问题的起源。尽管他的研究源于经济学，但他还积极地跨学科合作，研究了主要问题的各个方面。他最近关于人类发展和技能形成的跨学科研究借鉴了经济学，心理学，遗传学，流行病学，神经科学和法律，以研究不平等的起源，社会流动性的决定因素以及生命周期阶段之间的联系，从子宫开始。这项工作影响了学术文献和公共政策。


In 2000, Heckman won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on the microeconometrics of diversity and heterogeneity and for establishing a sound causal basis for public policy evaluation. He has received numerous other awards for his work, including the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association in 1983, the Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2005 from the Society of Labor Economics, the 2005 and 2007 Dennis Aigner Award for Applied Econometrics from the Journal of Econometrics, the Ulysses Medal from the University College Dublin in 2006, the 2007 Theodore W. Schultz Award from the American Agricultural Economics Association, the Gold Medal of the President of the Italian Republic, awarded by the International Scientific Committee of the Pio Manzú Centre in 2008, the Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy for Children Award from the Society for Research in Child Development in 2009, and the Frisch Medal from the Econometric Society in 2014 for the most outstanding paper in applied economics published in Econometrica in the previous five years. He is a recent recipient of a NIH MERIT award.


赫克曼是国家科学院的一员Sciences, USA; a member of the American Philosophical Society; a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the Econometric Society; the Society of Labor Economics; the American Statistical Association; the International Statistical Institute; and the National Academy of Education. He has received numerous honorary degrees, and is a foreign member of several scholarly bodies.


James J. Heckman joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 1999.

In 2000, he was co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples[read more]。