Rice University Presents Nobel Laureate James Heckman

6566 Main Street (entrance to underground parking for the BRC is on Dryden Road),Houston TX 77030

04 November, 2021

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Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences James Heckman to discuss "Interactions as Investments". RISE Nobel Laureate Lecture James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He is also director of the university’s Center for the Economics of Human Development, where he has conducted groundbreaking work with a consortium of economists, developmental psychologists, sociologists, statisticians and neuroscientists 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. Along with Daniel McFadden of the University of California at Berkeley, Heckman was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their development of theory and methods in the field of microeconometrics that are widely used in the statistical analysis of individual and household behavior within economics as well as other social sciences. He is the recipient of many other awards, including the John Bates Clark Medal awarded by the American Economic Association for significant contributions to economic thought and knowledge by an economist under the age of forty, and the Jacob Mincer Award for lifetime contributions in the field of labor economics presented by the Society of Labour Economics. According to rankings compiled by Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Heckman is the second most influential economist in the world. Admission to the lecture is free of charge; however, space is limited and we ask that you kindly Register. There is no reserved seating for the event, so an early arrival is recommended. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. Paid parking will be available in the BRC Garage. For more information regarding parking, please visit parking.rice.edu. The RISE Nobel Laureate Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Doyle Arnold ’70. All Rice University COVID policies will be followed at the lecture. We ask that you please wear a mask at all times when indoors.