Professor Li Shi, Director of the Center, and Professor James Heckman, Nobel Laureate, discuss issue
—— 发布时间：2018-01-08 ——
On January 8, 2018, Professor Li Shi, Director of CCEHD, met with Professor James Heckman, a member of the Center Academic Committee and Nobel Laureate in Economics, in Philadelphia, USA. They discussed in depth the future cooperation plan.
On December 18, 2017, Beijing Normal University and China Development Research Foundation jointly launched CCEHD, which is dedicated to exploring the causes of inequality between people and different life, and social interventions including research on nutrition and psychological development in children and youth, inequality and intergenerational mobility, employment, health and crime.
This is also the main goal of Center for the Economics of Human Development established by Professor Heckman's in 2014. The two sides conducted in-depth discussions on the cooperation between the two research centers in the future of human development research and reached a preliminary consensus. In the future, the two sides will carry out comprehensive cooperation in the areas of equal opportunities for infants and young children, the impact of family on children's growth and development, left-behind children's problems, early human capital investment and future development, and data survey. The two sides also discussed the development of social policy and high-quality experimental design
In addition to Center for the Economics of Human Development, the Center will collaborate with leading academic teams in the field of human development, such as Princeton University and Columbia University research groups. Design a questionnaire for each stage of human development in China, conduct a follow-up survey for more than 20 years nationwide, and obtain information of the psychological, health, education and labor market performance of people in different life cycle stages, and establish the database of the development of people in China, to achieve people's all-round development and capacity improvement, and achieve fair and sustainable development of people and society.
At the time of the establishment of CCEHD, Professor Heckman had specially recorded videos to congratulate the establishment of the center.
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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.
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