James J. Heckman

48 catalog papers. Identity-linked publications and additional name matches are distinguished below.

ORCID: 0000-0002-0399-662X

University of Chicago

Publications

• A Study of the Microdynamics of Early-Childhood Learning — Journal of Political Economy 2026 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
• Effects of Multigenerational Exposure to Early-Life Advantage: Lessons from a Primate Study — Journal of Political Economy 2026
• 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 2023
• An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force: A Comment — Journal of Political Economy 2020
• Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of an Influential Early-Childhood Program — Journal of Political Economy 2020
• Unordered Monotonicity — Econometrica 2018
• Abducting Economics — American Economic Review 2017
• Chicago Labor Economics — Journal of Political Economy 2017
• The Generalized Roy Model and the Cost-Benefit Analysis of Social Programs — Journal of Political Economy 2015
• Gary Becker: Model Economic Scientist — American Economic Review 2015
• Understanding the Mechanisms through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes — American Economic Review 2013
• Estimating Marginal Returns to Education — American Economic Review 2011
• Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin — Econometrica 2010
• Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Nonadditive Hedonic Models — Econometrica 2010
• Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation — Econometrica 2010
• The Education-Health Gradient — American Economic Review 2010
• The Technology of Skill Formation — American Economic Review 2007
• Structural Equations, Treatment Effects, and Econometric Policy Evaluation1 — Econometrica 2005
• Identifying Hedonic Models — American Economic Review 2002
• The Schooling of Southern Blacks: The Roles of Legal Activism and Private Philanthropy, 1910–1960 — The Quarterly Journal of Economics 2002
• Micro Data, Heterogeneity, and the Evaluation of Public Policy: Nobel Lecture — Journal of Political Economy 2001
• The Importance of Noncognitive Skills: Lessons from the GED Testing Program — American Economic Review 2001 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
• Policy-Relevant Treatment Effects — American Economic Review 2001
• The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Black, Hispanic, and White Males — Journal of Political Economy 2001
• Causal Parameters and Policy Analysis in Economics: A Twentieth Century Retrospective — The Quarterly Journal of Economics 2000
• Substitution and Dropout Bias in Social Experiments: A Study of an Influential Social Experiment — The Quarterly Journal of Economics 2000
• Understanding Black-White Wage Differentials, 1960-1990 — American Economic Review 2000
• Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator — The Review of Economic Studies 1998
• Life Cycle Schooling and Dynamic Selection Bias: Models and Evidence for Five Cohorts of American Males — Journal of Political Economy 1998
• Making The Most Out Of Programme Evaluations and Social Experiments: Accounting For Heterogeneity in Programme Impacts — The Review of Economic Studies 1997
• Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme — The Review of Economic Studies 1997
• Comment — Journal of the American Statistical Association 1996
• Lessons from the Bell Curve — Journal of Political Economy 1995
• Estimating Fecundability from Data on Waiting Times to First Conception — Journal of the American Statistical Association 1990
• Testing the Mixture of Exponentials Hypothesis and Estimating the Mixing Distribution by the Method of Moments — Journal of the American Statistical Association 1990
• Rejoinder — Journal of the American Statistical Association 1989
• Forecasting Aggregate Period-Specific Birth Rates: The Time Series Properties of a Microdynamic Neoclassical Model of Fertility — Journal of the American Statistical Association 1989
• Choosing among Alternative Nonexperimental Methods for Estimating the Impact of Social Programs: The Case of Manpower Training — Journal of the American Statistical Association 1989
• The identifiability of the competing risks model — Biometrika 1989
• Rejoinder—Natural Monopoly and the Bell System: Response to Charnes, Cooper and Sueyoshi — Management Science 1988
• The Importance of Bundling in a Gorman-Lancaster Model of Earnings — The Review of Economic Studies 1987
• Heterogeneity, Aggregation, and Market Wage Functions: An Empirical Model of Self-Selection in the Labor Market — Journal of Political Economy 1985
• The Identifiability of the Proportional Hazard Model — The Review of Economic Studies 1984
• Corrigendum on A Life Cycle Model of Female Labour Supply — The Review of Economic Studies 1982
• A Life Cycle Model of Female Labour Supply — The Review of Economic Studies 1980
• The Distribution of Lifetime Labor Force Participation of Married Women: Reply to Mincer and Ofek — Journal of Political Economy 1979
• A Beta-logistic Model for the Analysis of Sequential Labor Force Participation by Married Women — Journal of Political Economy 1977
• Empirical Evidence on the Functional Form of the Earnings-Schooling Relationship — Journal of the American Statistical Association 1974