The Chicago Economics Society and The Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research jointly present, "China Reach-Supporting Early Childhood Development in China"
Event Details
The Chicago Economics Society and The Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research jointly present, "China Reach-Supporting Early Childhood Development in China." This talk will be led by Professor James Heckman, The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at The University of Chicago and moderated by Professor Richard Wong, AB '74, AM '74, PhD '81, Chair of Economics and Philip Wong Kennedy Wong Professor in Political Economy, The University of Hong Kong.
HK$750
Please make checks payable to, "The Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research" and send to:
The University of Hong Kong
Room 1021
10/F, K.K. Leung Building
Pokfulam Road
Hong Kong
Registration
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Seats are limited. Registration will be on a first-come, first served basis and confirmed via email. Beverages other than coffee/tea are on a cash bar basis. Cancellations for a full refund must be made by March 20, 2015.
Deadline: 3/30/2015
Program
12:00 PM-12:10 PM: Registration
12:10 PM-1:00 PM: Lunch
1:00 PM-2:00 PM: Talk and Q&A
Speaker Profiles
James Heckman (Speaker)
The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, The University of Chicago
James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, a Nobel Memorial Prize winner in economics and an expert in the economics of human development. Through the university's Center for the Economics of Human Development, 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.
Heckman's work has been devoted to the development of a scientific basis for economic policy evaluation, with special emphasis on models of individuals and disaggregated groups, and to the problems and possibilities created by heterogeneity, diversity and unobserved counterfactual states. In the early 1990s, his pioneering research on the outcomes of people who obtain the GED certificate received national attention. His findings, which found great deficiencies in the value of the degree, spurred debates across the country on the merits of obtaining the certificate.
His work has been published in over 300 articles along with numerous books including Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policy? (with Alan Krueger); Evaluating Human Capital Policy, Law, and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean (with Carmen Pages); and The Myth of Achievement Tests: The GED and the Role of Character in American Life (with John Eric Humphries and Tim Kautz) just to name a few.
Heckman received his B.A. in mathematics from Colorado College in 1965 and his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1971. Since 1973, he has served as a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, where he directs the Economics Research Center, the Center for the Economics of Human Development, and the Center for Social Program Evaluation at the Harris School of Public Policy. He is a professor of law at the University of Chicago School of Law, senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation, and research fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.