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James J. Heckman

Global rank #35716 59%

Institution: University of Chicago

Primary Field: General (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://heckman.uchicago.edu

First Publication: Unknown

Most Recent: Unknown

RePEc ID: phe22 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 2.08 2.35 3.02 0.00 16.02
Last 10 Years 7.94 5.03 6.10 0.00 47.93
All Time 58.72 45.21 18.33 0.00 349.15

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 130
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 0.00

Publications (130)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2026 A Study of the Microdynamics of Early-Childhood Learning Journal of Political Economy S 2
2026 Effects of Multigenerational Exposure to Early-Life Advantage: Lessons from a Primate Study Journal of Political Economy S 5
2025 The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility Journal of Labor Economics A 3
2024 Dealing with imperfect randomization: Inference for the highscope perry preschool program Journal of Econometrics A 3
2024 Econometric causality: The central role of thought experiments Journal of Econometrics A 2
2023 The Lasting Effects of Early-Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans and Their Children Journal of Political Economy S 3
2022 Lessons for Americans from Denmark about inequality and social mobility Labour Economics B 2
2021 Early childhood education and life‐cycle health Health Economics B 2
2021 Using a satisficing model of experimenter decision-making to guide finite-sample inference for compromised experiments The Econometrics Journal B 2
2020 An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force: A Comment Journal of Political Economy S 2
2020 Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of an Influential Early-Childhood Program Journal of Political Economy S 4
2018 Gender differences in the benefits of an influential early childhood program European Economic Review B 3
2018 Returns to Education: The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health, and Smoking Journal of Political Economy S 3
2018 Gary Becker Remembered Journal of Political Economy S 3
2018 Unordered Monotonicity Econometrica S 2
2017 Early skill formation and the efficiency of parental investment: A randomized controlled trial of home visiting Labour Economics B 5
2017 Inequality in Human Capital and Endogenous Credit Constraints Review of Economic Dynamics B 2
2017 The Scandinavian Fantasy: Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the US Scandanavian Journal of Economics B 2
2017 Abducting Economics American Economic Review S 2
2017 Chicago Labor Economics Journal of Political Economy S 1
2016 Dynamic treatment effects Journal of Econometrics A 3
2016 Intergenerational long-term effects of preschool-structural estimates from a discrete dynamic programming model Journal of Econometrics A 2
2016 Decomposing Trends in Inequality in Earnings into Forecastable and Uncertain Components Journal of Labor Economics A 2
2015 CAUSAL ANALYSIS AFTER HAAVELMO Econometric Theory B 2
2015 Gary Becker: Model Economic Scientist American Economic Review S 1
2015 The Generalized Roy Model and the Cost-Benefit Analysis of Social Programs Journal of Political Economy S 3
2015 ESTIMATION OF DYNAMIC DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS BY MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD AND THE SIMULATED METHOD OF MOMENTS International Economic Review B 3
2014 Bayesian exploratory factor analysis Journal of Econometrics A 4
2013 Understanding the Mechanisms through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes American Economic Review S 3
2013 Older siblings' contributions to young child's cognitive skills Economic Modeling C 2
2012 Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out Journal of Labor Economics A 4
2012 Hard evidence on soft skills Labour Economics B 2
2012 The developmental origins of health Health Economics B 1
2011 Estimating Marginal Returns to Education American Economic Review S 3
2010 The Education-Health Gradient American Economic Review S 3
2010 The American High School Graduation Rate: Trends and Levels Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2010 The rate of return to the HighScope Perry Preschool Program Journal of Public Economics A 5
2010 Comparing IV with structural models: What simple IV can and cannot identify Journal of Econometrics A 2
2010 Testing the correlated random coefficient model Journal of Econometrics A 3
2010 THE EFFECT OF PRAYER ON GOD’S ATTITUDE TOWARD MANKIND Economic Inquiry C 1
2010 Tests of hypotheses arising in the correlated random coefficient model Economic Modeling C 2
2008 The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits Journal of Human Resources A 4
2008 Formulating, Identifying and Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation Journal of Human Resources A 2
2008 INTRODUCTION Economic Inquiry C 1
2008 AN ASSESSMENT OF CAUSAL INFERENCE IN SMOKING INITIATION RESEARCH AND A FRAMEWORK FOR FUTURE RESEARCH Economic Inquiry C 3
2008 SCHOOLS, SKILLS, AND SYNAPSES Economic Inquiry C 1
2007 The Technology of Skill Formation American Economic Review S 2
2007 Identifying and Estimating the Distributions of Ex Post and Ex Ante Returns to Schooling Labour Economics B 2
2007 Dynamic discrete choice and dynamic treatment effects Journal of Econometrics A 2
2007 Use of instrumental variables in the presence of heterogeneity and self‐selection: an application to treatments of breast cancer patients Health Economics B 4
2006 Selective Counteroffers Journal of Labor Economics A 3
2006 The Roles of High School Completion and GED Receipt in Smoking and Obesity Journal of Labor Economics A 3
2006 Bias-Corrected Estimates of GED Returns Journal of Labor Economics A 2
2006 Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity Review of Economics and Statistics A 3
2006 The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior Journal of Labor Economics A 3
2005 Estimating treatment effects for discrete outcomes when responses to treatment vary: an application to Norwegian vocational rehabilitation programs Journal of Econometrics A 3
2005 Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors Journal of Law and Economics B 3
2005 Separating uncertainty from heterogeneity in life cycle earnings Oxford Economic Papers C 3
2004 Using Matching, Instrumental Variables, and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2004 Identification and Estimation of Hedonic Models Journal of Political Economy S 3
2004 The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program Journal of Labor Economics A 2
2004 The effect of schooling and ability on achievement test scores Journal of Econometrics A 3
2003 Simple Estimators for Treatment Parameters in a Latent-Variable Framework Review of Economics and Statistics A 3
2003 Conditioning, causality and policy analysis Journal of Econometrics A 1
2003 China's Investment in Human Capital Economic Development & Cultural Change B 1
2002 The Schooling of Southern Blacks: The Roles of Legal Activism and Private Philanthropy, 1910–1960 Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
2002 Introduction to the JHR's Special Issue on Designing Incentives to Promote Human Capital Journal of Human Resources A 3
2002 Identifying Hedonic Models American Economic Review S 3
2002 The Performance of Performance Standards Journal of Human Resources A 3
2001 Three observations on wages and measured cognitive ability Labour Economics B 3
2001 The Importance of Noncognitive Skills: Lessons from the GED Testing Program American Economic Review S 2
2001 SESSION 1A: RACIAL INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS Journal of Economic History B 2
2001 Policy-Relevant Treatment Effects American Economic Review S 2
2001 Identifying The Role Of Cognitive Ability In Explaining The Level Of And Change In The Return To Schooling Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2001 Econometrics and empirical economics Journal of Econometrics A 1
2001 The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Black, Hispanic, and White Males Journal of Political Economy S 2
2001 Micro Data, Heterogeneity, and the Evaluation of Public Policy: Nobel Lecture Journal of Political Economy S 1
2001 Four Parameters of Interest in the Evaluation of Social Programs Southern Economic Journal C 3
2000 Substitution and Dropout Bias in Social Experiments: A Study of an Influential Social Experiment Quarterly Journal of Economics S 4
2000 Understanding Black-White Wage Differentials, 1960-1990 American Economic Review S 3
2000 The relationship between treatment parameters within a latent variable framework Economics Letters C 2
2000 Causal Parameters and Policy Analysis in Economics: A Twentieth Century Retrospective Quarterly Journal of Economics S 1
1999 On Policies To Reward The Value Added By Educators Review of Economics and Statistics A 3
1999 Instrumental Variables: Response to Angrist and Imbens Journal of Human Resources A 1
1998 Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator Review of Economic Studies S 3
1998 Tax Policy and Human-Capital Formation. American Economic Review S 3
1998 General-Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tuition Policy. American Economic Review S 3
1998 Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explanations With A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings With Heterogeneous Agents Review of Economic Dynamics B 3
1998 Accounting For Dropouts In Evaluations Of Social Programs Review of Economics and Statistics A 3
1998 Instrumental Variables Methods for the Correlated Random Coefficient Model: Estimating the Average Rate of Return to Schooling When the Return is Correlated with Schooling Journal of Human Resources A 2
1998 Life Cycle Schooling and Dynamic Selection Bias: Models and Evidence for Five Cohorts of American Males Journal of Political Economy S 2
1997 Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme Review of Economic Studies S 3
1997 Assessing the Performance of Performance Standards in Public Bureaucracies. American Economic Review S 3
1997 Making The Most Out Of Programme Evaluations and Social Experiments: Accounting For Heterogeneity in Programme Impacts Review of Economic Studies S 3
1997 The Value of Quantitative Evidence on the Effect of the Past on the Present. American Economic Review S 1
1997 Instrumental Variables: A Study of Implicit Behavioral Assumptions Used in Making Program Evaluations Journal of Human Resources A 1
1996 Human Capital Pricing Equations with an Application to Estimating the Effect of Schooling Quality on Earnings. Review of Economics and Statistics A 3
1996 Randomization as an Instrumental Variable: Notes. Review of Economics and Statistics A 1
1995 Lessons from the Bell Curve. Journal of Political Economy S 1
1993 What Has Been Learned about Labor Supply in the Past Twenty Years? American Economic Review S 1
1993 The Nonequivalence of High School Equivalents. Journal of Labor Economics A 2
1991 Identifying the Hand of the Past: Distinguishing State Dependence from Heterogeneity. American Economic Review S 1
1990 Review: Social Science Research and Policy Journal of Human Resources A 5
1990 The Third Birth in Sweden. Journal of Population Economics B 2
1990 The Central Role of the South in Accounting for the Economic Progress of Black Americans. American Economic Review S 1
1990 Varieties of Selection Bias. American Economic Review S 1
1990 Self-selection and the Distribution of Hourly Wages. Journal of Labor Economics A 2
1989 Determining the Impact of Federal Antidiscrimination Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks: A Study of South Carolina. American Economic Review S 2
1987 The Importance of Bundling in a Gorman-Lancaster Model of Earnings Review of Economic Studies S 2
1986 A Test for Subadditivity of the Cost Function with an Application to the Bell System: Erratum. American Economic Review S 2
1986 A dynamic model of aggregate output supply, factor demand and entry and exit for a competitive industry with heterogeneous plants Journal of Econometrics A 2
1986 An Investigation of the Labor Market Earnings of Panamanian Males Evaluating the Sources of Inequality Journal of Human Resources A 2
1985 Alternative methods for evaluating the impact of interventions : An overview Journal of Econometrics A 2
1985 New Evidence on the Timing and Spacing of Births. American Economic Review S 3
1985 Erratum Journal of Econometrics A 2
1985 Heterogeneity, Aggregation, and Market Wage Functions: An Empirical Model of Self-selection in the Labor Market. Journal of Political Economy S 2
1984 A Test for Subadditivity of the Cost Function with an Application to the Bell System. American Economic Review S 2
1984 Econometric duration analysis Journal of Econometrics A 2
1984 The Identifiability of the Proportional Hazard Model Review of Economic Studies S 2
1983 Are Unemployment and Out of the Labor Force Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States? Journal of Labor Economics A 2
1982 New methods for analyzing structural models of labor force dynamics Journal of Econometrics A 2
1982 Editors' introduction Journal of Econometrics A 2
1982 Corrigendum on A Life Cycle Model of Female Labour Supply Review of Economic Studies S 2
1980 A Life Cycle Model of Female Labour Supply Review of Economic Studies S 2
1979 Reply to Mincer and Ofek [The Distribution of Lifetime Labor Force Participation of Married Women]. Journal of Political Economy S 2
1978 A Partial Survey of Recent Research on the Labor Supply of Women. American Economic Review S 1
1977 A Beta-logistic Model for the Analysis of Sequential Labor Force Participation by Married Women. Journal of Political Economy S 2
1976 A Life-Cycle Model of Earnings, Learning, and Consumption. Journal of Political Economy S 1
1974 Life Cycle Consumption and Labor Supply: An Explanation of the Relationship Between Income and Consumption Over the Life Cycle. American Economic Review S 1
1974 Effects of Child-Care Programs on Women's Work Effort. Journal of Political Economy S 1