Dr. James Heckman
Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago & Nobel Laureate , University of Chicago
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James J. Heckman is a Nobel Memorial Prize winner in economics and an expert in the economics of human development. Through the University of Chicago’s Center for the Economics of Human Development, he has conducted groundbreaking work with a consortium of researchers showing that quality early childhood development heavily influences health, economic and social outcomes for individuals and society at large. Heckman has shown that there are great economic gains to be had by investing in early childhood development.