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James Heckman

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James Joseph Heckman (born April 19, 1944) is an American economist and Nobel laureate who serves as the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, where he is also a professor at the college, a professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD), and co-director of Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) Global Working Group. He is also a professor of law at the Law School, a senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation, and a research associate at the NBER. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 1983, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2000, which he shared with Daniel McFadden. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Heckman is the 139th most popular economist (up from 143rd in 2019), the 2,002nd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,001st in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, James Heckman ranks 139 out of 414. Before him are Michael Spence, Stanley Fischer, Eugene Fama, Rudolf Hilferding, Jeremy Rifkin, and William Nordhaus. After him are Alan Greenspan, Adolph Wagner, Kristalina Georgieva, Carlo M. Cipolla, Robert J. Shiller, and Paul Krugman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, James Heckman ranks 139. Before him are Robert Powell, Luis Ladaria Ferrer, Roger Daltrey, Patrice Chéreau, Aguila Saleh Issa, and Chico Mendes. After him are Norodom Ranariddh, Lucía Topolansky, Agnes Baltsa, Gary Busey, Tsuyoshi Kunieda, and Alice Walker.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Heckman ranks 2,002 out of 20,380. Before him are Rollo May (1909), Jean Arthur (1900), Néstor Carbonell (1967), Jake LaMotta (1922), Chuck Yeager (1923), and Lucy Liu (1968). After him are River Phoenix (1970), Janet Gaynor (1906), Scott Hall (1958), James Patterson (1947), XXXTentacion (1998), and Alan Greenspan (1926).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, James Heckman ranks 44. Before him are Thomas J. Sargent (1943), Douglas McGregor (1906), Michael Spence (1943), Eugene Fama (1939), Jeremy Rifkin (1945), and William Nordhaus (1941). After him are Alan Greenspan (1926), Robert J. Shiller (1946), Paul Krugman (1953), Ben Bernanke (1953), Peter Diamond (1940), and Robert F. Engle (1942).

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