James J. Heckman, PhD, is a senior fellow at the Archbridge Institute and director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development at the University of Chicago. He holds appointments at the University of Chicago’s Department of Economics and Harris School of Public Policy. In 2000, he received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his development of theory and methods used in the analysis of individual and household behavior. Dr. Heckman received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. He is currently co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy, and he has pushed over 300 articles and nine books.