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James Heckman has made fundamental contributions to the development of methods that allow economists to estimate models of economic behaviour using data on individual decisions. He has also produced numerous important empirical results that advanced understanding of how government policies that regulate labour markets and influence educational opportunity affect economic inequality among individuals and groups.
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Blundell, R., Hansen, L.P., Neal, D. (2018). Heckman, James (Born 1944). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2040
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