James J. Heckman (1944–)

Richard Blundell () and Flávio Cunha ()
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Flávio Cunha: Rice University

Chapter 37 in The Palgrave Companion to Chicago Economics, 2022, pp 939-978 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter covers James Heckman’s contributions to economics. It is divided into two main parts. The first part, running from Section 1 to Section 6 inclusive, summarises his research on labour supply, selection and discrete choice, labour market dynamics, and programme evaluation. The second part, running from Section 7 to Section 11 inclusive, discusses Heckman’s approach to structural econometrics, human capital formation, and life-cycle skill formation.

Keywords: Microeconometrics; Selection models; Matching methods; Labour supply; Human capital; Income inequality; Returns to education; Labour market dynamics; Duration models; Unobserved heterogeneity; Programme evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-01775-9_37

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