James J. Heckman
Auteur de Inequality in America
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de James J. Heckman
The Myth of Achievement Tests: The GED and the Role of Character in American Life (2014) 21 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
The Question of discrimination : racial inequality in the U.S. labor market (1989) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Heckman, James Joseph
- Date de naissance
- 1944-04-19
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Études
- Colorado College
Princeton University - Professions
- economist
- Organisations
- American Philosophical Society
Econometric Society
Society of Labor Economics
American Statistical Association
International Statistical Institute - Prix et distinctions
- Nobel Prize (2000)
John Bates Clark Medal (1983)
Frisch Medal (2014)
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 113
- Popularité
- #173,161
- Évaluation
- 5.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 31
“…Heckman is an economist who looks at the first few years of life. It turns out that already at age four, you can predict with about 77 per cent accuracy who is going to graduate from high school. He focuses on non-cognitive skills like personality which, unlike cognitive skills such as IQ, are hard to measure. For example, people who get high school equivalency degrees: they get test results that are just as high as people with actual high school degrees, but they do much worse in life. His main point is that having things like persistence and self-control are really important. But where do these things come from?..."
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