Professor James J. Heckman, the Nobel Laureate in Economics in 2000

    At the invitation of the School of Economics and Business Administration of Beijing Normal University and the Research Center for Human Development Economics, Professor James J. Heckman, the Nobel Laureate in Economics in 2000, will come to our school on March 23 and give the speech on “The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health and Smoking”.

    Professor James J. Heckman, as a member of the Academic Committee of the Human Development Economics Research Center, will also hold bilateral talks with the Center during the trip. The two sides will conduct in-depth exchanges and consultations of promoting the development of the Center and strengthening cooperation.
 
    Professor James J. Heckman, Economist, University of Chicago, USA, Director of the Center for Human Development Research at the University of Chicago. Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1944, he studied under the Department of Mathematics at Colorado College and received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1971. He has taught at Columbia University, Yale University, and the University of Chicago. Since 1995, James Heckman has been a professor of outstanding achievement economics at Henry Schultz at the University of Chicago.
 
Research areas
    Professor Heckman's research in economics involves econometric models such as social project assessment, discontinuous selection and panel data, labor market economics, and the model of income distribution. He was the pioneer of microeconometrics and was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics with Daniel McFadden for his contribution to the analysis of the principles and methods of selective sampling.
Professor James J. Heckman is currently focusing on human development and the development of personal skills in the current economic environment, exploring the origin of inequality and the determinants of social mobility in the different life cycles of people.