JAMES J. HECKMAN

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E-mail: jimh@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu

Born April 19, 1944, in Chicago, IL

EDUCATION

B.A. 1965 (Math) Colorado College (summa cum laude)
M.A. 1968 (Econ) Princeton University
Ph.D. 1971 (Econ) Princeton University
M.A. 1989 Yale University (honorary)

Dissertation: "Three Essays on Household Labor Supply and the Demand for Market Goods".

GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC HONORS

Phi Beta Kappa
Woodrow Wilson Fellow
NDEA Fellow
NIH Fellow
Harold Willis Dodds Fellow

POST-GRADUATE HONORS

Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1992-
Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation, 1991-
A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1988-1990.
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1985-
Henry Schultz Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, 1985-
Elevated to Distinguished Service Professorship 1995-
First Annual Louis T. Benezet Distinguished Alumnus Award, Colorado College, 1985.
Irving Fisher Professor, Yale University, Fall 1984
John Bates Clark Medal (American Economics Association) 1983.
Fellow, Econometric Society, 1980
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences,
Stanford University, 1978-1979.
Social Science Research Council Training Fellow, 1977-78.
Harry Scherman Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1972-1973.
President-elect, Midwest Economics Association, 1996-1997: President 1998.

MAJOR INVITED LECTURES

Wildavsky Forum Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 1999.
Jacob Marschak Lecturer, Far Eastern Econometric Society Meetings, July 25, 1997.
Journal of Applied Econometrics Lectures (First Lecturer in a new series established by the Journal of Applied Econometrics) Yale University, April 17, 18, 1997.
Keynote Lecture, Society For Economic Dynamics and Control, Mexico City, June 27, 1996.
Keynote Lecture, Latin American Econometric Society, Rio de Janeiro, August, 1996.
Keynote Speaker, American Sociological Association Meetings, New York, August 16, 1996.
Gilbert Lecture, University of Rochester, April, 1996
Seymour Harris Lectures, Kennedy School of Government, 1995. (First lecturer in a newly endowed series) Lectures to be published by Harvard University Press.
Distinguished Quantitative Social Science Lecture, University of Indiana, April, 1996.
Invited Lecture, 100th Centenary of Ragnar Frisch, First Nobel Economist, Oslo, March, 1995.
Invited Lecture, Public Policy School, Suny Albany (A paper of mine was the topic of a symposium): October, 1994.
Invited Lecture, Latin American Econometric Society, Caracas, August, 1994.
Aloysius Dunaway Memorial Lecture, Michigan State University, April 1993.
Carl Synder Memorial Lecture, University of California at Santa Barbara, Spring 1992.
H. Chase-Stone Lecture in Economics, Colorado College, 1992 (Participant in Three Day Symposium).
Martin Luther King Lecturer, University of Michigan, 1991.
Invited Lecture, Econometric Study Group, Royal Economic Society, Bristol, England, 1991.
Barcelona Lecture, Sixth World Econometric Society, 1990.
Erik Malmstens Distinguished Guest Professor of Economics, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1990.
Invited Major Lecture, University of Western Ontario, 1989.
Invited Major Guest Lecture, Joint Franco-Belgian Conference in Statistics, Toulouse, France, 1988.
Chung-Hua Distinguished Visitor and Academica Sinica Lectures, Taiwan,1988.
Fish Lecture, Brigham Young University, 1987.
Harry Lyman Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor, McMaster University, 1987.
Leif Johansen Lecture, University of Oslo, 1986.
Abbott Lecturer, Colorado College, 1985.
Major Lecture, Australasian Econometric Society, Sydney, Australia, 1984.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University of Chicago

Yale University

National Bureau of Economic Research

National Opinion Research Center - Economics Research Associate 1979-

Rand Corporation - Consultant 1975-1976

Columbia University

New York University - Adjunct Assistant Professor, 1972

Council of Economic Advisors - Junior Economist 1967

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

Martin-Marietta Aerospace Systems Engineer 1965

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Journal of Political Economy, Co-Editor, 1981-1987
Evaluation Review, Associate Editor, 1991-1996
Journal of Econometrics, Associate Editor, 1977-1983
Journal of Labor Economics, Associate Editor, 1982-
Review of Economic Studies, Associate Editor, 1982-1985
Econometric Reviews, Associate Editor, 1987-
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Associate Editor, 1989-1996
Review of Economics and Statistics, 1994-
Social Science Research, Council Committee on Research Methods for Longitudinal Data, Member 1976-1979, 1981-1982
National Science Foundation Evaluation Panel in Economics, Member 1977-1979
Annals of Economic and Social Measurement, Editor of special issue on the Analysis of Discrete Data
Center for Research on the Economics of Education, London School of Economics, Visitor, Spring 1977
University of Wisconsin, Visiting Professor, Fall 1977
Institute for Research on Poverty
Journal of Econometrics, Editor of the Special Issue on Panel Data, 1981
Academic Press, Editor of Labor Economics Series, 1980-1984
Member, National Academy of Sciences Panel on Statistical Assessments as Evidence in Courts, 1982-1985
Member, Board of Overseers, Michigan Panel Survey of Income Dynamics, 1981-1984
Member, Advisory Board, Chicago Urban League, 1980-1987
Member, National Academy of Sciences Panel on the Status of Black Americans, 1985-1988
Member, Advisory Board and Dean's Search Committee, School of Public Policy, U. of Chicago, 1985-1988

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Data (edited with Burton Singer), Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Performance Standards in A Government Bureaucracy (edited collection), forthcoming Upjohn Monograph Series and University of Chicago Press (Joint Publication).
Lecture Notes on Longitudinal Data Analysis (with B. Singer, and G. Tsiang), forthcoming, Westview Press, 1997.

Journal Articles

"A Note on Second Best Conditions for Public Goods", (with R. Nelson), Public Finance, 1 (1972).
"The Estimation of Income and Substitution Effects in a Model of Family Labor Supply," (with O. Ashenfelter), Econometrica (January 1974): 73-86. Presented at the Econometric Society Winter Meetings, 1971.
"Empirical Evidence on the Functional Form of the Earnings-Schooling Relationship." (with S. Polachek). Journal of the American Statistical Association (June 1974). Also, NBER, mimeo (October 1972).
"Shadow Prices, Market Wages and Labor Supply," NBER, mimeo (October 1972), Econometrica (July 1974): 679-94.
"The Effect of Day Care Programs on Women's Work Effort," Journal of Political Economy (March/April 1974). Reprinted in T.W. Schultz (ed.) Economics of the Family: Marriage, Children, and Human Capital. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974).
"Life Cycle Consumption and Labor Supply: An Explanation of the Relationship Between Income and Consumption Over The Life Cycle," American Economic Review (March 1974).
"A Stochastic Model of Reproduction: An Econometric Approach," (with R. Willis). Papers and Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics Section, 1974.
"Estimating Labor Supply Functions" (with O. Ashenfelter), in G. Cain and H. Watts (eds.), Labor Supply and Income Maintenance, Chicago: Markham Publishing Company, 1974.
"Measuring the Effect of an Antidiscrimination Program", (with O. Ashenfelter), July 1974 mimeo. In Evaluating The Labor Market Effects of Social Programs. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975. Presented at the American Economic Association Winter Meetings, 1972.
"The Estimation of the Parameters of the Human Capital Production Function and the Rate of Depreciation of Human Capital in a Human Capital Model Embedded in a Life Cycle Model of Labor Supply,". In N. Terleckyj (ed.) Household Production and Consumption, Vol. 139. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976, presented at the Conference on Income and Wealth, Washington, D.C., November 1973.
"Simultaneous Equation Models with both Continuous and Discrete Endogenous Variables With and Without Structural Shift in the Equations." In Goldfeld and Quandt (eds.) Studies in Nonlinear Estimation, Ballinger, 1976.
"A Life Cycle Model of Earnings, Learning and Consumption." Journal of Political Economy (August 1976).
"Does The Contract Compliance Program Work?: An Analysis of Chicago Data", (with K. Wolpin). Industrial and Labor Relations Review (Summer 1976). Presented at a Symposium on the Effect of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance on Minority Status, Cornell University, May 1975.
"The Common Structure of Statistical Models of Truncation, Sample Selection and Limited Dependent Variables: Annals of Economic and Social Measurement (December 1976).
"Introduction." Annals of Economic and Social Measurement. Special issue on Discrete, Qualitative and Limited Dependent Variables, (December, 1976).
"New Evidence on the Dynamics of Female Labor Supply", in E. Andrews and C. Lloyd (eds.), Women in the Labor Market. Columbia University Press, 1978. Presented at a Labor Department Conference "Women in the Labor Market", Columbia University, September 1977.
"A Partial Survey of Recent Research on the Labor Supply of Women." American Economic Review. Papers and Proceedings (May 1978). Invited paper, presented to the American Economic Association, New York, 1977.
"An Economic Analysis of the Contract Compliance Program". In Essay in Labor Market Analysis and Economic Demography in Memory of Peter Comay. Halstead, 1977.
"The Impact of the Government on the Labor Market Status of Black Americans: A Critical Review", (with R. Butler). In Equal Rights and Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations Research Association, 1977.
"A Beta-Logistic Model For the Analysis of Sequential Labor Force Participation by Married Women," (with R. Willis). Journal of Political Economy (February 1977). Read at the Third World Econometric Society Meetings, Toronto, 1975.
"Comments on 'The Labor Supply Responses of Wage Earnings in the Rural Negative Income Experiment.'" In the Labor Supply Responses of Wage Earners in J. Palmer and J. Pechman, Welfare in Rural Areas: The North Carolina-Iowa Maintenance Experiment, Brookings, 1977. Presented at the Brookings Conference on Evaluating the Results of the Rural Negative Income Tax Experiment, Washington, D.C., January, 1977.
"Dummy Endogenous Variables in a Simultaneous Equation System", Econometrica (July 1978). Original draft, April 1973, Final draft, April 1977.
"Labor Supply Estimates for Public Policy Evaluation", (with G. Borjas). In Proceedings of The Industrial and Labor Relations Research Association. Chicago meetings, 1978.
"Simple Statistical Models for Discrete Panel Data Developed and Applied to Test the Hypotheses of True State Dependence Against The Hypothesis of Spurious State Dependence." Annals de Insee. Paris, 1978 (September, Special Issue).
"Sample Selection Bias As A Specification Error", Econometrica (February 1979).
"Reply to Mincer and Ofek". Journal of Political Economy (February 1979).
"Sample Selection Bias As A Specification Error With An Application to the Estimation of Labor Supply Functions." March, 1977. J. Smith (ed.) Female Labor Supply: Theory and Estimation. Princeton University Press, 1980.
"Addendum To Sample Selection Bias As A Specification Error", 69-74, in E. Stromsdorfer and G. Farkas, Evaluation Studies Review Annual, Vol. 5, Sage Publications, 1980.
"Does Unemployment Cause Future Unemployment? Definitions, Questions and Answers from a Continuous Time Model of Heterogeneity and State Dependence", (with G. Borjas). Special Symposium issue on Unemployment, Economica (May 1980).
"A Life Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply", in B. Weisbrod and H. Hughes, Human Resource, Employment and Development: Proceedings of Sixth World Congress, IEA, McMillan, 1983.
"Statistical Models for Discrete Panel Data", in C. Manski and D. McFadden (eds.), Structural Analysis of Discrete Data With Econometric Applications. M.I.T. Press.
"The Incidental Parameters Problem and the Problem of Initial Conditions in Estimating A Discrete Time-Discrete Data Stochastic Process and Some Monte Carlo Evidence." Read at the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Panel Data, Harvard University, August 1978. In C. Manski and D. McFadden (eds.) Structural Analysis of Discrete Data With Econometric Applications. M.I.T. Press (originally scheduled for 1979; due to delays, published in 1981).
"Heterogeneity and State Dependence", in S. Rosen (ed.), Studies in Labor Markets. University of Chicago Press, 1981.
"Current Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Labor Supply: Second Generation Studies", (with T. MaCurdy). Research in Labor Economics, JAI Press Inc., 1981.
"Recent Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Labor Supply: A Partial Survey," with M. Killingsworth and T. MaCurdy, presented at Oxford, 1979. In Studies of The Labor Market, Z. Hornstein ed., HMS Treasury, 1981.
"The Impact of the Minimum Wage on the Employment and Earnings of Workers in South Carolina," (with Sedlacek), in Vol. 5, Report of the Minimum Wage Study Commission, U.S. Government Printing Office, pp. 225-272, June, 1981.
"Models For The Analysis of Labor Force Dynamics," (with C. Flinn), Advances in Econometrics (eds. R. Bassmann and G. Rhodes). January, 1982.
"New Methods for Analyzing Structural Models of Labor Force Dynamics", (with C. Flinn), Journal of Econometrics (January 1982).
"The Identification Problem in Econometric Models for Duration Data", in Advances in Econometrics, Proceedings of Fourth World Congress of Econometric Society, ed. by W. Hildenbrand, Cambridge University Press, 1982.
"New Methods for Analyzing Individual Event Histories", 99-140, Sociological Methodology, (S. Leinhardt, Jossey Bass, eds.), 1982.
"Earnings and The Distribution of Income", (with R. Michael) In Part II, Behavioral and Social Science Research, a National Resource, National Academy of Science Press, 1982.
"Population Heterogeneity in Demographic Models" (with B. Singer). In A. Rodgers and K. Land (eds.), Multidimensional Mathematical Demography, 1984, 271-320.
"Are Unemployment and Out of the Labor Force Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States?" (with C. Flinn), Journal of Labor Economics, (January, 1983): 28-42.
"The Likelihood Function For The Multistate-Multiepisode Model in 'Models For The Analysis of Labor Force Dynamics'" (with C. Flinn), Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 2, 1983, ed. by R. Bassmann and G. Rhodes, 225-231.
"Natural Monopoly" (with D. Evans), (ed.), Breaking Up Bell: Essays on Industrial Organization and Regulation, 127-156, North Holland, 1983.
"Multiproduct Cost Function Estimates and Natural Monopoly Tests for the Bell System", (with D. Evans), in Breaking Up Bell: Essays on Industrial Organization and Regulation, D. Evans, (ed.), Chapter 10, 253-282, North Holland, 1983.
"A Method for Minimizing the Impact of Distributional Assumption in Econometric Models for Duration Data" (with B. Singer), Econometrica (March, 1984), 271-320.
"The Identifiability of the Proportional Hazard Model" (with B. Singer), Review of Economic Studies (April, 1984), 231-241.
"Comments on the Ashenfelter and Kydland Papers", Carnegie Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy (1984), pp. 209-224.
"Econometric Duration Analysis" (with B. Singer), Journal of Econometrics (January, 1984), 63-132.
"The c2 Goodness of Fit Statistic For Models with Parameters Estimated From Microdata", Econometrica, Vol. 52, No. 6, November, 1984, 1543-1547.
"A Test for Subadditivity of the Cost Function With An Application to the U.S. Bell System" (with D. Evans), American Economic Review (September, 1984), 615-623.
"Introduction", (with B. Singer), Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Data, Cambridge University Press, 1985.
"A Simultaneous Equations Linear Probability Model" (with T. MaCurdy), Canadian Journal of Economics (January, 1985).
"Labor Econometrics" (with T. MaCurdy) in Handbook of Econometrics, ed. by Z. Griliches, 1986.
"Alternative Methods for Estimating The Impact of Interventions", (with R. Robb). Presented at Social Science Research Council Conference, Mt. Kisco, N.Y., October, 1978. In Heckman and Singer (eds.) Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Data. Cambridge University Press, 1985.
"New Evidence on the Timing and Spacing of Births" (with J. Hotz and J. Walker), American Economic Review (May, 1985), 179-184.
"Using Longitudinal Data to Estimate Age, Period and Cohort Effects in Earnings Equations, (with R. Robb), in Cohort Analysis in Social Research Beyond the Identification Problem, ed. by William M. Mason and Stephen E. Fienberg, Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1985.
"Heterogeneity, Aggregation and Market Wage Functions: An Empirical Model of Self-Selection in the Labor Market", (with G. Sedlacek), Journal of Political Economy (December, 1985).
"The Influence of Early Fertility and Subsequent Births And The Importance of Controlling For Unobserved Heterogeneity", (with J. Hotz and Jim Walker), Bulletin of The International Statistical Institute, 1985, Vol. 51. No. 2.
"A Dynamic Model of Aggregate Output Supply, Factor Demand and Entry and Exit For A Competitive Industry with Heterogeneous Plants (with V. K. Chetty), Journal of Econometrics, 1986, Vol. 33, No.1/2, pp. 237-262.
"Alternative Methods For Solving The Problem of Selection Bias in Evaluating The Impact of Treatments on Outcomes" (with R. Robb) in Drawing Inference From Self Selected Samples, Howard Wainer, ed., Springer-Verlag, 1986.
"The Impact of Government On The Economic Status of Black Americans", in W. Darity and S. Schulman, eds, The Question of Discrimination, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1989, pp. 50-80.
"The Earnings of Panamanian Males", (with J. Hotz), Journal of Human Resources, September, 1986.
"Alternative Identifying Assumptions in Econometric Models of Selection Bias" (with R. Robb), Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 5 (ed. by G. Rhodes), 1986.
"Time Constraints and Household Demand Functions", in Research in Population Economics, T. P. Schultz, ed., Vol. 6, 1988.
"The Importance of Bundling in a Gorman-Lancaster Model of Earnings", Review of Economic Studies, 1987 (with J. Scheinkman).
"Female Labor Supply: A Survey", (with M. Killingsworth), Chapter 2 in Handbook of Labor Economics, ed. by O. Ashenfelter and R. Layard, North Holland, 1987.
"Using c2 Goodness of Fit Tests and Other Criteria to Choose Among Competing Duration Models: A Case Study of Hutterite Data" (with J. Walker), University of Chicago, 1986, Sociological Methodology, 1987.
"Selection Bias and The Economics of Self Selection", The New Palgrave, 1987.
"Empirical Tests of Labor Market Equilibrium: A Microeconomic Perspective", 1988, Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, (with T. MaCurdy), Vol. 28, Spring 1988, pp. 231-258.
"Do We Need Experimental Data To Evaluate The Impact of Training on Earnings", (with J. Hotz and M. Dabos), in Evaluation Review, Vol. 28, No. 4, August 1987, pp. 397-427.
"Are Classical Experiments Necessary For Evaluating The Impact of Manpower Training Programs?: A Critical Assessment", with (J. Hotz and M. Dabos) Industrial Relations Research Association: Proceedings Of The Annual Meeting, Vol. 40, 1987, pp. 291-302.
"Natural Monopoly and The Bell System: A Response to Charnes, Cooper and Sueyoshi", (with D. Evans) in Management Science, Vol. 34, No.1, January, 1988, pp. 27-38.
"Self Selection and The Distribution of Hourly Wage Rates", with G. Sedlacek, Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 8, No. 1, Part 2, January 1990, pp. S329-S363.
"The Value of Longitudinal Data For Evaluating The Impact of Treatments on Outcomes" (with R. Robb) in G. Duncan and G. Kalton, eds., Panel Surveys, Wiley: New York, 1988, pp. 512-538.
"The Impact of The Economy and The State on The Economic Status of Blacks: A Study of South Carolina", (with R. Butler and B. Payner) in D. Galenson, ed. Markets and Institutions, Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 321-343.
"Determining The Impact of Federal Antidiscrimination Policy on The Economic Status of Blacks: A Study of South Carolina", (with B. Payner), American Economic Review, Vol. 79, No. 1, March 1989, pp. 138-177.
"The Empirical Content of the Roy Model", with Bo Honoré, Econometrica, Vol. 58, No. 5, September, 1990, pp. 1121-1149.
"Affirmative Action and Black Employment", Proceedings Of The Industrial Relations Research Association, Vol. 41, 1989, pp. 320-329.
"The Identifiability Of The Competing Risks Model", with Bo Honoré, Biometrika, Vol. 76, No. 2, June, 1989, pp. 325-30.
"Causal Inference and Nonrandom Samples", symposium on Selection Bias Models, Journal of Educational Statistics, Vol. 14, No. 2, Summer 1989, pp. 159-168, reprinted in J. Schaeffer, ed., The Role of Models in Nonexperimental Social Science: Two Debates, 1991.
"The Third Birth in Sweden", (with J. Walker), Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1990, pp. 235-275.
"A Method of Moments Estimator for The Mixing Distribution of a Mixture of Exponentials Model and A Mixture of Geometrics Model", presented at IC2 Conference, Durham, N.C., May 1988, in W. Barnett, J. Powell and G. Tauchen, eds. Nonparametric Estimation of Econometric Models, Cambridge University, 1990.
"Estimating Fecundability from Data on Waiting Times to First Conceptions", (with J. Walker), Journal of The American Statistical Association, Vol. 85, No. 410, June, 1990, pp. 283-294.
"Choosing Among Alternative Nonexperimental Methods For Estimating The Impact of Social Programs: The Case of Manpower Training", (with V. J. Hotz). Symposium paper with invited discussion, featured invited paper, American Statistical Association meeting, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 84, No. 408, December 1989, pp. 862-874.
"Forecasting Aggregate Period Specific Birth Rates: Time Series Properties of a Microdynamic Neoclassical Model of Fertility", (with J. Walker), Journal of The American Statistical Association, Vol. 84, No. 408, December, 1989, pp. 958-965.
"The Relationship Between Wages and Income And The Timing and Spacing of Births: Evidence from Swedish Longitudinal Data", (with J. Walker), Econometrica, Vol. 58, No. 6, November, 1990, pp. 235-275.
"A Nonparametric Method of Moments Estimator For The Mixture of Geometrics Model", in J. Hartog, et.al., Panel Data and Labor Market Studies, North Holland, 1990.
"Economics Models of Fertility Dynamics: A Study of Swedish Fertility (with J. Walker). In T.P. Schultz, ed., Research in Population Economics, 1990, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Vol. 7, pp. 3-91.
"Accounting For The Economic Progress of Black Americans", in R. Cornwall and P.V. Wunnava, eds., New Approaches to Economics and Social Analyses of Discrimination. New York: Praeger, 1991, pp. 331-337.
"Testing The Mixture of Exponentials Hypothesis and Estimating The Mixing Distribution by the Method of Moments", (with R. Robb and J. Walker), Journal of The American Statistical Association, Vol. 85, No. 410, June, 1990, pp. 582-589.
"The Impact of The Great Society on Social Science", Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 25, No. 2, Spring, 1990, pp. 297-304.
"The Central Role of the South in Accounting For The Economic Progress of Black Americans", Papers and Proceedings Of The American Economic Association, May, 1990.
"Varieties of Selection Bias", American Economic Review, Vol. 80, No. 2, May, 1990, pp. 313-318.
"Racial Disparity and Employment Discrimination Law: An Economic Perspective" and Rejoinder" with R. Verkerke, Yale Law and Policy Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer, 1990, pp. 276-298; 320-330.
"Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation", paper presented at Institute For Research on Poverty conference at Arlie House in Charles Manski and Irwin Garfinkel, eds., Evaluating Welfare and Training Programs, Harvard University Press, 1992.
"Understanding Third Births in Sweden". In J. Trussell, R. Hankinson and J. Tilton, eds., Demographic Applications of Event History Analysis, Oxford University Press, 1992.
"Continuous vs. Episodic Change: The Impact of Affirmative Action and Civil Rights Policy On The Economic Status of Blacks", (with J. Donohue), Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 29, No. 4, December, 1991, pp. 1603-1643.
"Reevaluating Federal Civil Rights Policy" (with J. Donohue), Georgetown Law Journal, 1991.
"Understanding The Economic Progress of Black Americans", in Business In The Contemporary World, Summer 1990, 19-22.
"Identifying the Hand Of The Past: Distinguishing State Dependence from Heterogeneity", American Economic Review, Vol. 81, No. 2, May, 1991, pp. 75-79.
"The Nonequivalence of High School Equivalents", (with S. Cameron), Journal of Labor Economics, January, 1993.
"Haavelmo and the Birth of Modern Econometrics: A Review of The History of Econometric Ideas by Mary Morgan", Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 30, June 1992.
"The Urban Institute Audit Studies: Their Methods and Findings", (with P. Siegelman), in M. Fix and R. Struyk, eds, Clear and Convincing Evidence: Measurement of Discrimination in America, Urban Institute, Fall 1993.
"Evaluating an Argument For Affirmative Action", (with T. Philipson), Rationality and Society, July 1992.
"Determinants of Young Male Schooling and Training Choices", in Private Sector Skill Formation: International Comparisons, ed. by Lisa Lynch, University of Chicago Press, 1993.
"What Has Been Learned About Labor Supply In The Past Twenty Years?, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 116-121, May 1993.
"Is Job Training Oversold?", The Public Interest, Number 115, Spring, 1994, pp. 91-115.
"Econometric Mixture Models and More General Models for Unobservables", (with C. Taber), Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Issue 3, Vol. 3, (1994): Frailty Models in Survival Analysis.
"Assessing The Case For Randomized Evaluation of Social Programs", in Measuring Labor Market Program: Evaluating The Effects of Active Labor Market Initiatives, K. Jensen and P. Madsen, eds., Ministry of Labor, Copenhagen, DK., May 1993.
U. S. Education and Training Policy: A Reevaluation of The Underlying Assumptions Behind The New Consensus, (with J. Smith and R. Roselius) in Labor Markets, Employment Policy and Job Creation, A. Levenson and L. C. Solmon, eds., Santa Monica, CA: Milken Institute for Job and Capital Formation, October, 1994.
"Evaluating The Case For Randomized Social Experiments", (with J. Smith), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring, 1995.
"Does Measured School Quality Really Matter? An Examination of the Earnings-Quality Relationship", (with A. Layne-Farrar and Petra Todd, in G. Burtless, ed. Does Money Matter? The Effect of School Resources on Student Achievement and Success, Brookings, July, 1996.
"The Economics of Eligibility Rules for a Social Program: A Study of the Job Training Partnership Act -- A Summary Report" (with Terri Devine), Canadian Journal of Economics, 1995.
"Coleman's Contribution to Education: Theory and Research Styles and Empirical Research", (with D. Neal), in Jon Clark, ed. The Contributions of James Coleman: Falmer Sociology Series: Falmer Press: London/N.Y., Philadelphia, 1996.
"Lessons From The Bell Curve," Journal of Political Economy, October, 1995.
"Instrumental Variables: A Study of Implicit Behavioral Assumptions", forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources, 1997.
"Randomization As An Instrumental Variable," Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. LXXVIII, May, 1996, pp. 336-341.
"On Air: Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables," Journal of The American Statistical Association, June, 1996.
"Experimental and Nonexperimental Evaluation," with J. Smith, in G. Schmid, editor, International Handbook of Labor Market Policy and Evaluation, Elgar Publishing Company, 1996.
"What Do Bureaucrats Do? The Effects of Performance Standards and Bureaucratic Preferences on Acceptance Into the JTPA Program," (with Jeffrey Smith and Christoper Taber) in G. Liebcap, ed., Studies in Bureaucratic Behavior, JAI Press, 1996.
"Human Capital Pricing Equations with An Application To Estimating The Effect of Schooling Quality on Earnings," with Anne Layne-Farrar and Petra Todd, Review of Economics and Statistics, November, 1996.
"Measuring Cognitive Ability," with John Cawley, Karen Coneeley and Ed Vytlacil, in Intelligence and Success: Is it all in the Genes? Scientists Respond to the Bell, ed. by Bernard Devlin, Stephen E. Fienberg, Daniel Resnick and Kathyrn Roeder, Springer-Verlag, 1997.
"Linear Probability Models of The Demand For Attributes With An Empirical Application to Estimating The Preferences of Legislators," (with J. Snyder), Rand Journal of Economics, 1996.
"Consequences of Eligibility Rules for A Social Program: A Study of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA)," (with Terri Devine), in S. Polachek, Research in Labor Economics, JAI Press, 1996, Vol. 15, 111-170.
"Sources of Selection Bias in Evaluating Programs: An Interpretation of Conventional Measures and Evidence on The Effectiveness of Matching as a Program Evaluation Method," Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences, November, 1996 (with H. Ichimura, J. Smith and P. Todd).
"Assessing the Performance of Performance Standards in Public Bureaucracies" (with C. Heinrich and J. Smith), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 1997.
"The Value of Quantitative Evidence on the Effect of the Past on the Present," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 1997.
"Matching As An Econometric Estimator" Parts I and II: (with Hidehiko Ichimura and Petra Todd ), October, 1993, both parts forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies, 1997.
"Accounting For Dropouts in The Evaluation of Social Experiments," (with J. Smith and C. Taber), forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics, 1997.
"The Sensitivity of Experimental Impact Estimates: Evidence From The JTPA Study" (with J. Smith), August, 1993, revised, May, 1996 and presented at a conference on Youth Transitions, Konstanz, Germany, forthcoming in R. Freeman, Youth Unemployment, University of Chicago and NBER, 1997.
"What Should Be on Human Capital Investment Policy?", in G. Mangum, Of Heart and Mind, Upjohn, 1996.
"Making The Most Out of Social Experiments: The Intrinsic Uncertainty in Evidence From Randomized Trials With An Application To The National JTPA Experiment," (with N. Clements and J. Smith), March 1993, forthcoming Review of Economic Studies, 1997.
"Evaluating The Welfare State" (with J. Smith), forthcoming in Frisch Centennial S. Strom editor, Econometric Society Monograph Series ,Cambridge University Press, 1996.
"Social Experiments: Theory and Evidence" with J. Smith, Okonomie and Gesellschaft, Jahrbuch 13, 1996, 186-214.
"The Effects of Government Policy on Human Capital Investment and Wage Inequality," (with Lance Lochner, Jeffrey Smith, Chris Taber), Chicago Policy Review.
"Intellectual Roots of the Law and Economics Movement, Law and History Review, Fall 1997, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 327-332.
"The Empirical Foundations of Calibration", (with Lars Hansen), Journal of Economic Perspectives 10(1), Winter 1996, pp. 87-104.

WORKING PAPERS, PAPERS IN PROGRESS AND PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

"Life Cycle Schooling and Educational Selectivity: Models and Choice," with S. Cameron, February, 1993, under revision, Journal of Political Economy, 1997.
"Ashenfelter's Dip and The Determinants of Participation in A Social Program," (with J. Smith), under revision.
"Alternative Approaches To The Evaluation of Social Programs: Econometric and Experimental Methods," Barcelona Lecture, Sixth World Meetings of The Econometric Society, submitted to Econometrica.
"Substitution Bias in Social Experiments: Evidence From the National JTPA Study," with Neil Hohmann, Michael Khoo and Jeffrey Smith, January, 1996.
"Public Action. Private Choice and Philanthropy: Understanding The Sources of Improvement in Black Schooling Quality in Georgia 1911-1960. (with Donohue, Layne-Farrar and Todd).
"Substitution Bias in Social Experiments," (with Michael Khoo, Neil Hohmann and Jeffrey Smith), University of Chicago, 1993, revised June, 1996.
"The Case For Simple Estimators: Experimental Evidence From the National JTPA Study," unpublished manuscript, University of Chicago, November 1993.
"The Performance of Performance Standards" with J. Smith, under revision, American Economic Review, July, 1995.
"Separating The Preferences of Program Applicants and Bureaucrats" (with C. Taber and J. Smith), under review, Journal of Public Economics.
"Law, Migration and Philanthropy: Understanding The Sources of Improvement in Black Schooling Quality in Georgia: 1911-1960", with John Donohue, Anne Layne Farrar and Petra Todd), August 1995, revised January 1997.
"Dynamic Models of Human Capital Accumulation: Theory, Evidence and Application To The Evaluation of Tax and Training Policies," forthcoming, Journal of Economic Dynamics.
"Determinants of Participation in A Social Program," with J. Smith under revision, Quarterly Journal of Economics.
"Nonparameteric Characterization of Selection Bias Using Experimental Data: A Study of Adult Males in JTPA, "Part I: Definitions, Applications and Empirical Results", and "Part II: Econometric Theory and Monte Carlo Evidence" (both parts are under revision at Econometrica, June, 1995) (with H. Ichimura, Petra Todd and J. Smith).
"The Empirical Importance of Randomization Bias in Social Experiments: Evidence from the JTPA Study," (with M. Khoo, R. Roselius and J. Smith).
"The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Whites and Hispanics", for Blacks, Whites and Hispanics," (with S. Cameron), under revision., first draft 1992
"A Sequential Model of Schooling" (with S. Cameron), Yale, 1990.
"Internal Adjustment Costs And The Neoclassical Theory of the Firm", (with V. K. Chetty, 1971).
"Dynamic Models of Female Labor Supply" (March, 1977).
"Shadow Prices, Market Wages and Labor Supply Revisited: Some Corrections and Computational Simplifications", mimeo (June, 1975).
"New Evidence On The Assertion That The Government Has Shifted The Relative Demand Curve For Labor In Favor of Blacks" (with R. Butler), June, 1978.
"Three State Search Models" (with T. Coleman), unpublished, April, 1981.
"The Empirical Content of Alternative Models of Labor Earnings", unpublished, 1978, revised 1982.

BOOK MANUSCRIPT

Understanding The Structure of Selection into Social Programs, 1995, under review University of Chicago Press.
Evaluating Social Programs: The Harris Lectures, under review, Harvard University Press.

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Problems and Issues In Current Econometric Practices (ed.) Journal of Economic Literature (December, 1974).
"The Cracked Bell" review of Herrnstein and Murray, The Bell Curve, Reason, March, 1995.

James Heckman is Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago where he has served since 1973. He holds a parallel appointment as Director of Social Program Evaluation at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and is also a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation.

Heckman's research combines both methodological and empirical interests in evaluating the impact of a variety of social programs on the economy and on the society at large. He has written on the impact of civil rights and affirmative action programs in the U.S., on the impact of taxes on labor supply and human capital accumulation on the impact of public and private job training on earnings and employment, on the impact of unionism on labor markets in developing countries and on the impact of skill certification programs.

He has also contributed substantially to the literature both in applied and theoretical econometrics. His methodological work on selection bias and on the evaluation of social programs is widely used as is his research on the analysis of heterogeneity in consumer preferences and in the analysis of longitudinal data. He has a series of influential papers on the identifiability of abroad classes of econometric models.

He edited the Econometric Monograph series volume Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Data and is the author of two forthcoming technical monographs

(1) Evaluating Social Programs: Methodological and Empirical Lessons From a Prototypical Job Training Program (Chicago, 1997)

(2) Incentives in Government Bureaucracies: Can Incentives in Bureaucracies Emulate Market Efficiency? (Upjohn - Chicago, 1997)

His 1995 Harris Lectures at Harvard, The Economic Approach To Social Program Evaluation, are currently under revision for publication by Harvard University Press.

Heckman has received numerous honors for his research. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences. He received the John Bates Clark Award of the American Economic Association in 1983.