Details about James J. Heckman

Homepage:	http://jenni.uchicago.edu
Postal address:	James J. Heckman obtained the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2000. Department of Economics,University of Chicago, 1126 E. 59th Street,Chicago IL 60637
Workplace:	American Bar Foundation (ABF), (more information at EDIRC) Department of Economics, University of Chicago, (more information at EDIRC) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), (more information at EDIRC) Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), (more information at EDIRC) Geary Institute, University College Dublin, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2008

1. Dynamic policy analysis
   CeMMAP working papers, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies View citations
2. Earnings Functions and Rates of Return
   University of Western Ontario, CIBC Human Capital and Productivity Project Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, CIBC Human Capital and Productivity Project View citations
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   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2008) View citations
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2008) View citations
   See Also Journal Article in Journal of Human Capital (2008)
3. Econometric Causality
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
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   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2008) View citations
   CeMMAP working papers, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies (2008) View citations
   See Also Journal Article in International Statistical Review (2008)
4. Identification of Treatment Effects Using Control Functions in Models with Continuous, Endogenous Treatment and Heterogeneous Effects
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   See Also Journal Article in Econometrica (2008)
5. Instrumental Variables in Models with Multiple Outcomes: The General Unordered Case
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
6. Schools, Skills, and Synapses
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
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   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2008) View citations
   See Also Journal Article in Economic Inquiry (2008)
7. Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   Also in
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2008)
8. The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits
   Research Memoranda, Maastricht : ROA, Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt View citations
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   UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series, United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology (2008) View citations
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2008) View citations
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2008) View citations
9. The Effect of Prayer on God's Attitude Toward Mankind
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

2007

10. A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
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    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2006) View citations
11. Early Childhood Intervention. Rationale, Timing and Efficacy
    Working Papers, Geary Institute, University College Dublin
12. The American High School Graduation Rate: Trends and Levels
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
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    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) View citations
13. The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
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    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) View citations
14. The Evolution of Inequality, Heterogeneity and Uncertainty in Labor Earnings in the U.S. Economy
    PIER Working Paper Archive, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania View citations
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    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2007) View citations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) View citations
15. The Identification & Economic Content of Ordered Choice Models with Stochastic Thresholds
    Working Papers, Geary Institute, University College Dublin
16. The Identification and Economic Content of Ordered Choice Models with Stochastic Thresholds
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
    Also in
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) View citations
    See Also Journal Article in International Economic Review (2007)
17. The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
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    Working Papers, esocialsciences.com (2007)
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Review of Agricultural Economics (2007)
18. The Technology of Skill Formation
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
    Also in
    2004 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics (2004) View citations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) View citations
    See Also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2007)
19. Use of instrumental variables in the presence of heterogeneity and self-selection: An application in breast cancer patients
    Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York

2006

20. Bias Corrected Estimates of GED Returns
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Labor Economics (2006)
21. Contributions of Zvi Griliches
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
    Also in
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2006)
22. Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
    Also in
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2006) View citations
23. The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Labor Economics (2006)
24. The Evolution of Labor Earnings Risk in the US Economy
    2006 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics View citations
25. Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2006) View citations
    See Also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2006)

2005

26. Allander Series: Skill Policies for Scotland
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
27. Dynamic Discrete Choice and Dynamic Treatment Effects
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2005) View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (2007)
28. Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2005) View citations
    See Also Chapter (2006)
29. Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
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    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2005) View citations
    See Also Chapter (2006)
30. Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
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    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) View citations
    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (2004) View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Law & Economics (2005)
31. Lessons from the Technology of Skill Formation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
32. Nonparametric estimation of nonadditive hedonic models
    CeMMAP working papers, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies View citations
33. Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2004) View citations
    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (2004) View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Oxford Economic Papers (2005)
34. Skill Policies for Scotland
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo GmbH
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    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2004) View citations
35. Structural Equations, Treatment Effects and Econometric Policy Evaluation
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2005) View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Econometrica (2005)

2004

36. Four Parameters of Interest in the Evaluation of Social Programs
    Staff General Research Papers, Iowa State University, Department of Economics View citations
37. Measuring Disparate Impacts and Extending Disparate Impact Doctrine to Organ Transplantation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
38. Simple Estimators for Treatment Parameters in a Latent Variable Framework
    Staff General Research Papers, Iowa State University, Department of Economics View citations
    See Also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2003)

2003

39. Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
40. Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
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    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (2003) View citations
41. Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
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    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) View citations
42. Human Capital Policy
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
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    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) View citations
43. Identifcation and Estimation of Hedonic Models
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo GmbH
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    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2003) View citations
    CeMMAP working papers, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies (2002) View citations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (2004)
44. Instrumental Variables, Local Instrumental Variables and Control Functions
    IDEI Working Papers, Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse View citations
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    CeMMAP working papers, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies (2002) View citations
45. Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
46. Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
47. Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
    Also in
    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (2003) View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Pacific Economic Review (2004)
48. Simulation and Estimation of Hedonic Models
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
    Also in
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo GmbH (2003) View citations
49. Simulation and Estimation of Nonaddative Hedonic Models
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
50. The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in
    University of Western Ontario, CIBC Human Capital and Productivity Project Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, CIBC Human Capital and Productivity Project (2003) View citations
    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (2003) View citations
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2003) View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Labor Economics (2004)
51. The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
    Also in
    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (2003) View citations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (2004)
52. Using Matching, Instrumental Variables and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
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    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (2003) View citations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) View citations
    See Also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2004)

2002

53. China's Investment in Human Capital
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Economic Development and Cultural Change (2003)
54. Flexibility and Job Creation: Lessons for Germany
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
55. Identifying hedonic models
    CeMMAP working papers, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, Institute for Fiscal Studies View citations
    See Also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2002)
56. Learning-By-Doing Vs. On-the-Job Training: Using Variation Induced by the EITC to Distinguish Between Models of Skill Formation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
57. Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
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    Working Paper Series, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (2002) View citations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2002) View citations
58. Testing for Moral Hazard on Dynamic Insurance Data
    THEMA Working Papers, THEMA (THéorie Economique, Modélisation et Applications), Université de Cergy-Pontoise View citations
59. The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations
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    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2002) View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Economic Journal (2002)
60. The Performance of Performance Standards
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
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    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2002) View citations

2001

61. Autobiography
    Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee

2000

62. Identification and SQRT N Efficient Estimation of Semiparametric Panel Data Models with Binary Dependent Variables and a Latent Factor
    Econometric Society World Congress 2000 Contributed Papers, Econometric Society View citations
63. Identifying the Role of Cognitive Ability in Explaining the Level of and Change in the Return to Schooling
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See Also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2001)
64. Instrumental Variables, Selection Models, and Tight Bounds on the Average Treatment Effect
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
65. Interview with the 2000 Laureates in Economics, James J. Heckman and Daniel L. McFadden
    Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee
66. Local Instrumental Variables
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
67. Microdata, Heterogeneity and the Evaluation of Public Policy
    Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee
68. Policies to Foster Human Capital
    Working Papers, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago View citations
    Also in
    JCPR Working Papers, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research (2000) View citations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1999) View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Research in Economics (2000)
69. Simple Estimators for Treatment Parameters in a Latent Variable Framework with an Application to Estimating the Returns to Schooling
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
70. The Cost of Job Security Regulation: Evidence from Latin American Labor Markets
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
71. Treatment Effects for Discrete Outcomes when Responses to Treatment Vary Among Observationally Identical Persons: An Application to Norwegian
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1999

72. Accounting for Heterogeneity, Diversity, and General Equilibriumin Evaluating Social Programs
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
73. Causal Parameters and Policy Analysis in Economcs: A Twentieth Century Retrospective
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See Also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2000)
74. General Equilibrium Cost Benefit Analysis of Education and Tax Policies
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
75. Micro Data and General Equilibrium Models
    Discussion Papers, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics View citations
    See Also Chapter (1999)
76. The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
77. The Pre-Program Earnings Dip and the Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Implications for Simple Program Evaluation Strategies
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
78. Training Effects on Employment when the Training Effects are Heterogenous: an Application to Norwegian Vocational Rehabilitation Programs
    Norway; Department of Economics, University of Bergen, Department of Economics, University of Bergen View citations

1998

79. Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Econometrica (1998)
80. Evaluating the Welfare State
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
81. Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See Also Journal Article in Review of Economic Dynamics (1998)
82. General Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tuition Policy
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See Also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1998)
83. Life Cycle Schooling and Dynamic Selection Bias: Models and Evidence for Five Cohorts
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
84. Meritocracy in America: An Examination of Wages Within and Across Occupations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
85. Social Action, Private Choice, and Philanthropy: Understanding the Sources of Improvements in Black Schooling in Georgia, 1911-1960
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
86. Substitution and Dropout Bias in Social Experiments: A Study of an Influential Social Experiment
    UWO Department of Economics Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations
    See Also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2000)
87. Tax Policy and Human Capital Formation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See Also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1998)
88. Understanding the Role of Cognitive Ability in Accounting for the Recent Rise in the Economic Return to Education
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1997

89. The Sensitivity of Experimental Impact Estimates: Evidence from the National JTPA Study
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1996

90. Cognitive Ability, Wages, and Meritocracy
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
91. Linear Probability Models of the Demand for Attributes with an Empirical Application to Estimating the Preferences of Legislators
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
92. What Do Bureaucrats Do? The Effects of Performance Standards and Bureaucratic Preferences on Acceptance into the JTPA Program
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1995

93. Ashenfelters Dip and the Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Implication for Simple Program Evaluation Strategies
    UWO Department of Economics Working Papers, University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics View citations
94. Does Measured School Quality Really Matter? An Examination of the Earnings-Quality Relationship
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
95. Instrumental Variables: A Cautionary Tale
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
96. Randomization as an Instrumental Variable
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
97. The Schooling Quality-Earnings Relationship: Using Economic Theory to Interpret Functional Forms Consistent with the Evidence
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1994

98. Accounting for Dropouts in Evaluations of Social Experiments
    University of Chicago - Economics Research Center, Chicago - Economics Research Center View citations
    Also in
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1994) View citations
99. Econometric Mixture Models and More General Models for Unobservables in Duration Analysis
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
100. Making the Most Out Of Social Experiments: Reducing the Intrinsic Uncertainty in Evidence from Randomized Trials with an Application to the JTPA Exp
     NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1993

101. Assessing Clinton's Program on Job Training, Workfare, and Education in the Workplace
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
102. Determinants of Young Male Schooling and Training Choices
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1991

103. Continuous Versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
     See Also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Literature (1991)
104. Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation
     NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
105. The Nonequivalence of High School Equivalents
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
     See Also Journal Article in Journal of Labor Economics (1993)

1989

106. Choosing Among Alternative Nonexperimental Methods for Estimating the Impact of Social Programs: The Case of Manpower Training
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
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     University of Chicago - Economics Research Center, Chicago - Economics Research Center (1988) View citations
107. Determining the Impact of Federal Antidiscrimination Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks: A Study of South Carolina
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
     See Also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1989)
108. Forecasting Aggregate Period Specific Birth Rates: The Time Series Properties of a Microdynamic Neoclassical Model of Fertility
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
109. THE THIRD BIRTH IN SWEDEN
     Working Papers, Yale - Economic Growth Center
     See Also Journal Article in Journal of Population Economics (1990)
110. The Impact of Government on the Economic Status of Black Americans
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1982

111. Are Unemployment and Out of the Labor Force Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States?
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
     See Also Journal Article in Journal of Labor Economics (1983)
112. Heterogeneity and State Dependence
     NBER Reprints, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
113. Models for the Analysis of Labor Force Dynamics
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
114. New Methods for Analyzing Structural Models of Labor Force Dynamics
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
     See Also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (1982)
115. New Methods for Estimating Labor Supply Functions: A Survey
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1978

116. Labor Supply Estimates For Public Policy Evaluation
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1977

117. Dummy Endogenous Variables in a Simultaneous Equation System
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
     See Also Journal Article in Econometrica (1978)
118. Sample Selection Bias As a Specification Error (with an Application to the Estimation of Labor Supply Functions)
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
119. The Government's Impact on the Labor Market Status of Black Americans: A Critical Review
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1975

120. A Beta-Logistic Model for the Analysis of Sequential Labor Force Participation by Married Women
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
     See Also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (1977)

1974

121. Estimation of a Stochastic Model of Reproduction: An Econometric Approach
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
122. Measuring the Effect of an Anti-Discrimination Program
     NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
     Also in
     Working Papers, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section.

1972

123. Estimating Labor Supply Functions
     Working Papers, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section.

1971

124. The Estimation of Income and Substitution Effects in a Model of Family Labor Supply
     Working Papers, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section. View citations
     See Also Journal Article in Econometrica (1974)

Undated

125. New Evidence on the Timing and Spacing of Births
     University of Chicago - Population Research Center, Chicago - Population Research Center View citations
     See Also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1985)

Journal Articles

2008

1. AN ASSESSMENT OF CAUSAL INFERENCE IN SMOKING INITIATION RESEARCH AND A FRAMEWORK FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
   Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46, (1), 37-44
2. Earnings Functions and Rates of Return
   Journal of Human Capital, 2008, 2, (1), 1-31 View citations
   See Also Working Paper (2008)
3. Econometric Causality
   International Statistical Review, 2008, 76, (1), 1-27 View citations
   See Also Working Paper (2008)
4. EconomicDynamics Interviews James Heckman and Flavio Cunha on Skill Formation and Returns to Schooling
   EconomicDynamics Newsletter, 2008, 9, (2)
5. INTRODUCTION
   Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46, (1), 1-1
6. Identification of Treatment Effects Using Control Functions in Models With Continuous, Endogenous Treatment and Heterogeneous Effects
   Econometrica, 2008, 76, (5), 1191-1206
   See Also Working Paper (2008)
7. SCHOOLS, SKILLS, AND SYNAPSES
   Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46, (3), 289-324 View citations
   See Also Working Paper (2008)

2007

8. Comments on Are Protective Labor Market Institutions at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Review of the Evidence by David Howell, Dean Baker, Andrew Glyn, and John Schmitt
   Capitalism and Society, 2007, 2, (1), 5
9. Dynamic discrete choice and dynamic treatment effects
   Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 136, (2), 341-396 View citations
   See Also Working Paper (2005)
10. Identifying and Estimating the Distributions of Ex Post and Ex Ante Returns to Schooling
    Labour Economics, 2007, 14, (6), 870-893 View citations
11. THE IDENTIFICATION AND ECONOMIC CONTENT OF ORDERED CHOICE MODELS WITH STOCHASTIC THRESHOLDS
    International Economic Review, 2007, 48, (4), 1273-1309
    See Also Working Paper (2007)
12. The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children*
    Review of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 29, (3), 446-493 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2007)
13. The Technology of Skill Formation
    American Economic Review, 2007, 97, (2), 31-47 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2007)
14. Use of instrumental variables in the presence of heterogeneity and self-selection: an application to treatments of breast cancer patients
    Health Economics, 2007, 16, (11), 1133-1157 View citations

2006

15. Bias-Corrected Estimates of GED Returns
    Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24, (3), 661-700 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2006)
16. Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America’s Future Workforce
    World Economics, 2006, 7, (3), 17-41
17. Reply to Byatt et al. by Nicholas Stern
    World Economics, 2006, 7, (2), 153-157
18. Selective Counteroffers
    Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24, (3), 385-410 View citations
19. The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior
    Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24, (3), 411-482 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2006)
20. The Roles of High School Completion and GED Receipt in Smoking and Obesity
    Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24, (3), 635-660 View citations
21. Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 88, (3), 389-432 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2006)

2005

22. China's human capital investment
    China Economic Review, 2005, 16, (1), 50-70 View citations
23. Estimating treatment effects for discrete outcomes when responses to treatment vary: an application to Norwegian vocational rehabilitation programs
    Journal of Econometrics, 2005, 125, (1-2), 15-51 View citations
24. Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors
    Journal of Law & Economics, 2005, 48, (1), 1-39 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2005)
25. Separating uncertainty from heterogeneity in life cycle earnings
    Oxford Economic Papers, 2005, 57, (2), 191-261 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2005)
26. Structural Equations, Treatment Effects, and Econometric Policy Evaluation
    Econometrica, 2005, 73, (3), 669-738 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2005)

2004

27. Identification and Estimation of Hedonic Models
    Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 112, (S1), S60-S109 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2003)
28. Selection bias, comparative advantage and heterogeneous returns to education: evidence from China in 2000
    Pacific Economic Review, 2004, 9, (3), 155-171 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2003)
29. The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program
    Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22, (2), 243-298 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2003)
30. The effect of schooling and ability on achievement test scores
    Journal of Econometrics, 2004, 121, (1-2), 39-98 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2003)
31. Using Matching, Instrumental Variables, and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 86, (1), 30-57 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2003)

2003

32. 2001 Lawrence R. Klein Lecture Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice
    International Economic Review, 2003, 44, (2), 361-422
33. Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard In Insurance: Can Dynamic Data Help to Distinguish?
    Journal of the European Economic Association, 2003, 1, (2-3), 512-521 View citations
34. China's Investment in Human Capital
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2003, 51, (4), 795-804 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2002)
35. Conditioning, causality and policy analysis
    Journal of Econometrics, 2003, 112, (1), 73-78
36. Simple Estimators for Treatment Parameters in a Latent-Variable Framework
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 85, (3), 748-755 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2004)
37. Some Brief Remarks on the Life and Work of Jacob Mincer
    Review of Economics of the Household, 2003, 1, (4), 245-247

2002

38. Identifying Hedonic Models
    American Economic Review, 2002, 92, (2), 304-309 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2002)
39. The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post--secondary Schooling
    Economic Journal, 2002, 112, (482), 705-734 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2002)
40. The Schooling Of Southern Blacks: The Roles Of Legal Activism And Private Philanthropy, 1910-1960
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2002, 117, (1), 225-268 View citations

2001

41. Accounting for Heterogeneity, Diversity and General Equilibrium in Evaluating Social Programmes
    Economic Journal, 2001, 111, (475), F654-99 View citations
42. Econometrics and empirical economics
    Journal of Econometrics, 2001, 100, (1), 3-5 View citations
43. Identifying The Role Of Cognitive Ability In Explaining The Level Of And Change In The Return To Schooling
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001, 83, (1), 1-12 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2000)
44. Micro Data, Heterogeneity, and the Evaluation of Public Policy: Nobel Lecture
    Journal of Political Economy, 2001, 109, (4), 673-748 View citations
45. Policy-Relevant Treatment Effects
    American Economic Review, 2001, 91, (2), 107-111 View citations
46. SESSION 1A: RACIAL INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS
    The Journal of Economic History, 2001, 61, (02), 517-517
47. The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Black, Hispanic, and White Males
    Journal of Political Economy, 2001, 109, (3), 455-499 View citations
48. The Importance of Noncognitive Skills: Lessons from the GED Testing Program
    American Economic Review, 2001, 91, (2), 145-149 View citations
49. Three observations on wages and measured cognitive ability
    Labour Economics, 2001, 8, (4), 419-442 View citations

2000

50. Causal Parameters And Policy Analysis In Economics: A Twentieth Century Retrospective
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000, 115, (1), 45-97 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1999)
51. Policies to foster human capital
    Research in Economics, 2000, 54, (1), 3-56 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (2000)
52. Response to Eissa
    Research in Economics, 2000, 54, (1), 81-82
53. Response to the discussants
    Research in Economics, 2000, 54, (1), 71-74
54. Substitution And Dropout Bias In Social Experiments: A Study Of An Influential Social Experiment
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000, 115, (2), 651-694 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1998)
55. The relationship between treatment parameters within a latent variable framework
    Economics Letters, 2000, 66, (1), 33-39 View citations
56. Understanding Black-White Wage Differentials, 1960-1990
    American Economic Review, 2000, 90, (2), 344-349 View citations

1999

57. Human capital formation and general equilibrium treatment effects: a study of tax and tuition policy
    Fiscal Studies, 1999, 20, (1), 25-40 View citations
58. On Policies To Reward The Value Added By Educators
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1999, 81, (4), 720-727 View citations
59. The Pre-programme Earnings Dip and the Determinants of Participation in a Social Programme. Implications for Simple Programme Evaluation Strategies
    Economic Journal, 1999, 109, (457), 313-48 View citations

1998

60. Accounting For Dropouts In Evaluations Of Social Programs
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1998, 80, (1), 1-14 View citations
61. Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data
    Econometrica, 1998, 66, (5), 1017-1098 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1998)
62. Detecting Discrimination
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1998, 12, (2), 101-16 View citations
63. Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explanations With A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings With Heterogeneous Agents
    Review of Economic Dynamics, 1998, 1, (1), 1-58 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1998)
64. General-Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tuition Policy
    American Economic Review, 1998, 88, (2), 381-86 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1998)
65. Life Cycle Schooling and Dynamic Selection Bias: Models and Evidence for Five Cohorts of American Males
    Journal of Political Economy, 1998, 106, (2), 262-333 View citations
66. Matching as an Econometric Evaluation Estimator
    Review of Economic Studies, 1998, 65, (2), 261-94 View citations
67. Tax Policy and Human-Capital Formation
    American Economic Review, 1998, 88, (2), 293-97 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1998)
68. What should be our human capital investment policy?
    Fiscal Studies, 1998, 19, (2), 103-119 View citations

1997

69. Assessing the Performance of Performance Standards in Public Bureaucracies
    American Economic Review, 1997, 87, (2), 389-95 View citations
70. Making the Most Out of Programme Evaluations and Social Experiments: Accounting for Heterogeneity in Programme Impacts
    Review of Economic Studies, 1997, 64, (4), 487-535 View citations
71. Matching as an Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme
    Review of Economic Studies, 1997, 64, (4), 605-54 View citations
72. The Value of Quantitative Evidence on the Effect of the Past on the Present
    American Economic Review, 1997, 87, (2), 404-08 View citations

1996

73. Human Capital Pricing Equations with an Application to Estimating the Effect of Schooling Quality on Earnings
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1996, 78, (4), 562-610 View citations
74. Randomization as an Instrumental Variable: Notes
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1996, 78, (2), 336-41 View citations
75. The Economics of Eligibility Rules for a Social Program: A Study of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA)--A Summary Report
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1996, 29, (s1), 99-104 View citations
76. The Empirical Foundations of Calibration
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1996, 10, (1), 87-104 View citations

1995

77. Assessing the Case for Social Experiments
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1995, 9, (2), 85-110 View citations
78. Lessons from the Bell Curve
    Journal of Political Economy, 1995, 103, (5), 1091-1120 View citations

1993

79. The Nonequivalence of High School Equivalents
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1993, 11, (1), 1-47 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1991)
80. What Has Been Learned about Labor Supply in the Past Twenty Years?
    American Economic Review, 1993, 83, (2), 116-21 View citations

1992

81. Haavelmo and the Birth of Modern Econometrics: A Review of The History of Econometric Ideas
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1992, 30, (2), 876-86 View citations

1991

82. Continuous versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1991, 29, (4), 1603-43 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1991)
83. Identifying the Hand of the Past: Distinguishing State Dependence from Heterogeneity
    American Economic Review, 1991, 81, (2), 75-79 View citations

1990

84. Self-selection and the Distribution of Hourly Wages
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1990, 8, (1), S329-63 View citations
85. The Central Role of the South in Accounting for the Economic Progress of Black Americans
    American Economic Review, 1990, 80, (2), 242-46 View citations
86. The Empirical Content of the Roy Model
    Econometrica, 1990, 58, (5), 1121-49 View citations
87. The Relationship between Wages and Income and the Timing and Spacing of Births: Evidence from Swedish Longitudinal Data
    Econometrica, 1990, 58, (6), 1411-41 View citations
88. The Third Birth in Sweden
    Journal of Population Economics, 1990, 3, (4), 235-75 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1989)
89. Varieties of Selection Bias
    American Economic Review, 1990, 80, (2), 313-18 View citations

1989

90. Determining the Impact of Federal Antidiscrimination Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks: A Study of South Carolina
    American Economic Review, 1989, 79, (1), 138-77 View citations
    See Also Working Paper (1989)

1988

91. Empirical tests of labor-market equilibrium: An evaluation
    Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1988, 28, (1), 231-258 View citations

1987

92. The Importance of Bundling in a Gorman-Lancaster Model of Earnings
    Review of Economic Studies, 1987, 54, (2), 243-55 View citations

1986

93. A Test for Subadditivity of the Cost Function with an Application to the Bell System: Erratum
    American Economic Review, 1986, 76, (4), 856-58 View citations
94. A dynamic model of aggregate output supply, factor demand and entry and exit for a competitive industry with heterogeneous plants
    Journal of Econometrics, 1986, 33, (1-2), 237-262 View citations

1985

95. A Simultaneous Equations Linear Probability Model
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1985, 18, (1), 28-37 View citations
96. Alternative methods for evaluating the impact of interventions: An overview
    Journal of Econometrics, 1985, 30, (1-2), 239-267 View citations
97. Erratum
    Journal of Econometrics, 1985, 27, (1), 137-138
98. Heterogeneity, Aggregation, and Market Wage Functions: An Empirical Model of Self-selection in the Labor Market
    Journal of Political Economy, 1985, 93, (6), 1077-1125 View citations
99. New Evidence on the Timing and Spacing of Births
    American Economic Review, 1985, 75, (2), 179-84 View citations
    See Also Working Paper

1984

100. A Method for Minimizing the Impact of Distributional Assumptions in Econometric Models for Duration Data
     Econometrica, 1984, 52, (2), 271-320 View citations
101. A Test for Subadditivity of the Cost Function with an Application to the Bell System
     American Economic Review, 1984, 74, (4), 615-23 View citations
102. Comments on the Ashenfelter and Kydland papers
     Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1