James J. Heckman

120.2k total citations · 37 hit papers
428 papers, 58.6k citations indexed

About

James J. Heckman is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Education and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, James J. Heckman has authored 428 papers receiving a total of 58.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 174 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 106 papers in Education and 93 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in James J. Heckman's work include Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (72 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (58 papers) and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (54 papers). James J. Heckman is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (72 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (58 papers) and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (54 papers). James J. Heckman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. James J. Heckman's co-authors include Petra Todd, Flávio Cunha, Hidehiko Ichimura, Edward Vytlacil, Burton H. Singer, Stephen V. Cameron, Rodrigo Pinto, Jeffrey A. Smith, Sergio Urzúa and Tim Kautz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

James J. Heckman

404 papers receiving 51.9k citations

Hit Papers

Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator:... 1974 2026 1991 2008 1997 1976 1998 2006 1984 1000 2.0k 3.0k

Peers

James J. Heckman
Comparison fields: 5 of 218
  • Economics and Econometrics 24.0k
  • Sociology and Political Science 15.2k
  • Education 12.2k
  • Safety Research 7.4k
  • Gender Studies 7.1k
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Countries citing papers authored by James J. Heckman

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Fields of papers citing papers by James J. Heckman

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James J. Heckman

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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Intergenerational and Intragenerational Externalities of the Perry Preschool Project. NBER Working Paper No. 25889.
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A Partial Survey of Recent Research on The Labor Supply of Women
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Early Childhood Investments Substantially Boost Adult Health breakdown →
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The American Family in Black and White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality. NBER Working Paper No. 16841.
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Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation. NBER Working Paper No. 15664.
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The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development. NBER Working Paper No. 14695.
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Human Capital Formation in Childhood and Adolescence
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The Case for Investing in Disadvantaged Young Children
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Estimating distributions of counterfactuals with an application to the returns to schooling and measurement of the effect of uncertainty on schooling choice
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Doing It Right: Job Training and Education.
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Making the most out of programme evaluations and social experiments: Accounting for
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Cognitive Ability, Wages, and Meritocracy
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Is Job Training Oversold
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What Has Been Learned About Labor Supply in the Past Twenty Years
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Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation
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