James is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago.
He has devoted his professional life to understanding the origins of major social and economic problems related to inequality, social mobility, discrimination, skill formation and regulation, and to devising and evaluating alternative strategies for addressing those problems.
We use the control function approach to identify the average treatment effect and the effect of treatment on the treated in models with a continuous endogenous regressor whose impact is heterogeneous.
We consider the identification of the average treatment effect in models with continuous endogenous variables whose impact is heterogeneous and derive a testable restriction that allows us to assess the degree of unobserved heterogeneity.
We analyze equilibria in hedonic economies and study conditions that lead to identification of structural preference parameters in hedonic economies with both additive and nonadditive marginal utility and marginal product functions.
Event
11 June 2004 at 10:15<p>10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH</p>
To celebrate the memory of W.M. (Terence) Gorman (FBA), one of the most respected economists of his generation, this workshop will bring together leading economists from around the world to present and discuss papers in the Gorman tradition.
