James J. Heckman, the economist belonging to the so-called Chicago School, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2000. His main contribution to microeconomics was developing methods for handling selective samples in a statistically satisfactory way. In social sciences Heckman is one of the main researchers of racial discrimination and education, with the special regard to the noncognitive aspects of the early education.
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