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4 unusual facts about James Heckman


J.B. Pritzker

Under the leadership of Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman, he supported the creation of the Pritzker Consortium on Early Childhood Development at the University of Chicago.

James Heckman

In June 2006 he was appointed as the Professor of Science and Society at University College Dublin.

He is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, Professor of Science and Society at University College Dublin and a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation.

Paul Tough

How Children Succeed built upon the work of James Heckman, University of Chicago economist and Nobel lauterate, that stated that education should focus more on promoting the psychological traits of "conscientiousness" among children at young ages rather than more IQ-related studies later in life.


Research Papers in Economics

Andrei Shleifer is currently the highest ranked economist, followed by Joseph Stiglitz and James Heckman.


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