Achievements
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Mr. Heckman is the author of Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Data, Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies?, and numerous articles on labor, education, and civil-rights policies. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the John Bates Clark Medal in 1983, the Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2005, and the Ulysses Medal from the University College Dublin in 2006. In 2000, he won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He is also a member of many academic and professional socieities, including the National Academy of Sciences, the International Statistical Institute, the American Statistical Association, the Society of Labor Economics, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Education. In addition, he has been the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and professorships.
