Professor James J. Heckman, University of Chicago and NBER

James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at The University of Chicago. His recent research deals with such issues as evaluation of social programs, econometric models of discrete choice and longitudinal data, the economics of the labor market, and alternative models of the distribution of income. Professor Heckman has received numerous awards for his work, including the John Bates Clark Award of the American Economic Association in 1983, the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (with Daniel McFadden), the 2005 Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Achievement in Labor Economics, the 2005 University College Dublin Ulysses Medal , and the 2005 Aigner award from the Journal of Econometrics.


Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity (with Sergio Urzua and Edward Vytlacil)



Professor Francis Kramarz, Ecole Polytechnique and Crest-Insee

Francis Kramarz is the Head of the Research Department at CREST-INSEE, the research branch of the French Statistical Institute. He is also an associate professor at Ecole Polytechnique. His main field is labor economics and labor micro-econometrics. In particular, he and John Abowd have developed new methods for analyzing matched employer-employee panel data. He has published in Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Labor Economics, Review of Economic and Statistics, and other journals. He also wrote a chapter of the recently published Handbook of Labor Economics. Francis Kramarz is a research fellow of CEPR (London) and since October 1999 of IZA.