Micro Data, Heterogeneity, and the Evaluation of Public Policy: Nobel Lecture

By James J. Heckman. Journal of Political Economy, 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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META‐ANALYSIS OF ECONOMICS RESEARCH REPORTING GUIDELINES (2013, neutral): “Our scientific journals contain so much information, including noise and misinformation, that it threatens to drown out genuine scientific knowledge and informed policy action (Heckman, 2001).”
A review of agent‐based modeling of climate‐energy policy (2020, background): “Empirical and experimental behavioral research demonstrates considerable heterogeneity of both types of agents in reality (Heckman, 2001).”
Is Meta-Analysis a Noah's Ark for Non-Market Valuation? (2002, background): “Nonetheless, until recently, the volume of empirical research in environmental economics lagged behind other areas of microeconomics referred to in Heckman’s (2001) Nobel lecture.”
Using matching, instrumental variables and control functions to estimate economic choice models (2004, background): “If we assume that U1 ⊥ ⊥ X, Z and adopt ( 10 ) as the choice model,”
Evidence-based policymaking: promise, challenges and opportunities for accounting and financial markets research** (2018, neutral): “There is a huge literature on the identification of treatment effects (for overviews, see Heckman 2001, Angrist and Pischke 2009, 2014).”
Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000 (2003, positive): “(See Heckman, 2001 or Heckman and Navarro, 2003).”
Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs, Part I: Causal Models, Structural Models and Econometric Policy Evaluation (2007, methodology): “See also Carneiro, Hansen and Heckman (2001, 2003), where this proportion is identified using choice data and/or supplementary proxy measures.”
Time-varying beta: a boundedly rational equilibrium approach (2010, background): “Heckman (2001), the 2001 Nobel Laureate in economics, said, “The most important discovery was the evidence on pervasiveness of heterogeneity and diversity in economic life.”
Price Knowledge in Household Demand for Utility Services (2005, background): “We also describe a “treatment effects” approach (Blundell and Costa Dias 2000; Heckman 2001; Heckman, Tobias, and Vytlacil 2001) to evaluate potential consumption responses to price knowledge.”