Human Capital - The Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics

Early Childhood Interventions (ECI)

To investigate the early origins of inequality and their lifetime consequences.

Harold Alderman

World Bank

use Human Development Advisor
Silke Anger

German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

Senior Researcher
Angus Armstrong

National Institute of Economic and Social Research, UK

Director, Macroeconomic Research
Orazio Attanasio

UCL

Professor in the Department of Economics
W. Steven Barnett

National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER)

Director
Timothy Bartik

W. E. Upjohn Institute

Senior Economist
Alison Baulos

University of Chicago

Associate Director, Economics Research Center
Nazli Baydar

Koc University and University of Washington

Assoc Prof
Clive Belfield

Department of Economics, Queens College, City University of New York

Associate Professor
Daniel Benjamin

Economics Department, Cornell University

Assistant Professor
Samuel Berlinski

Inter-American Development Bank

Lead Reasearch Economist
Raquel Bernal

Economics, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota COLOMBIA

Associate Professor
Pietro Biroli

University of Chicago

PhD student
Clancy Blair

NYU

Professor
Kimberly Boller

Mathematica Policy Research

Senior Research Psychologist
Pia Britto

Yale University

Associate Research Scientist
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Teachers College and College of Physicians and Surgeon, Columbia University

Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development and Education
Shawn Bushway

University at Albany

Professor
Frances Campbell

Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, UNC-CH

Senior Scientist
Frances Champagne

Columbia University

Assistant Professor
Amy Claessens

Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago

Assistant Professor
Steve Cole

UCLA School of Medicine

Professor of Medicine
Flavio Cunha

University of Pennsylvania

Assistant Professor of Economics
Simona de Falco

Department of Cognitive Science and Education, University of Trento

Research fellow
Daniela Del Boca

University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto

Professor of Economics
Adele Diamond

University of British Columbia (UBC)

Canada Research Chair Tier 1 Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Thomas Dohmen

Maastricht University

Professor
Fabienne Doucet

New York University

Assistant Professor
Pia Dovern-Pinger

University of Mannheim

Doctoral Researcher
Orla Doyle

University College Dublin

Research Fellow
Angela Duckworth

University of Pennsylvania

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Robert Dugger

Hanover Investment Group

Managing Partner
Greg Duncan

University of Calfornia, Irvine

Distinguished Professor
Steven Durlauf

University of Wisconsin

Vilas Research Professor and Kenneth J. Arrow and Laurits R. Christensen Professor of Economics
Philipp Eisenhauer

University of Mannheim, ZEW Mannheim, IZA

Graduate Student
Armin Falk

University of Bonn

Professor of Economics
Rita Ginja

Uppsala University

Research Fellow
Sally Grantham-McGregor

Institute of Child Health, University College London, and University of the West Indies

Emeritus Professor of International Child Health
Elizabeth Groginsky

United Way Worldwide

Director of Early Childhood Education
Scott Groginsky

Office of Congressman Jared Polis

Legislative Assistant
Antoine Guedeney

APHP Paris and University Denis Diderot Paris 7

Full Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Megan Gunnar

Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota

Regents Professor
James Heckman

Leader(ECI)

University of Chicago

Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago; Professor of Science and Society, Geary Institute and University College Dublin; Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation
Heather Hill

University of Chicago - School of Social Service Administration

Assistant Professor
Tom Hoffer

NORC at the University of Chicago

Senior Fellow
Margaret Holland

University of Rochester

Postdoctoral Fellow
Guanglei Hong

Comparative Human Development Department, University of Chicago

Assistant Professor
Betina Jean-Louis

Harlem Children's Zone

Director of Evaluation
Tanja Jungmann

University of Rostock

Professorship, PhD
Mihalyne (Marta) Korintus

National Institute for Family and Social Policy (Nemzeti Csalad Ã©s Szocialpolitikai Intezet), Budapest, Hungary

Director of Research
Jung-Sook Lee

University of New South Wales

Lecturer
Kangyi Lee

College of Human Ecology, Seoul National University

Associate professor in Department of Child Development and Family Studies
Sooin Lee

Project Injini /NCsoft

Director
Carl Lejuez

Univ of Maryland; Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research (CAPER)

Professor
Caitriona Logue

University College Dublin

Ph.D. Candidate
Peter F. Lutz

Leibniz University Hannover

Project Leader / Adj. Professor
Edward Melhuish

Birkbeck, University of London

Professor
Seong Hyeok Moon

Co-leader (HI)

Economics Research Center

Research Fellow
Sophie Naudeau

The World Bank

Senior Education Specialist
Helen Neville

University of Oregon

Professor, Brain Development and Neuroplasticity
Milagros Nores

NIEER, Rutgers Graduate School of Education

Assistant Research Professor
Amélie Petitclerc

Teachers College, Columbia University

Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Stavros Petrou

University of Warwick

Professor of Health Economics
Lynne Pettler-Heckman

University of Chicago

Research Associate
Friedhelm Pfeiffer

Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Mannheim

Senior Researcher
Rodrigo Pinto

Co-leader (HI)

University of Chicago - Department of Economics

Researcher
Elizabeth Pungello

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Scientist
Javaeria Qureshi

University of Chicago

Doctoral Student
Sharon Ramey

Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Virginia Tech

Distinguished Research Scholar and Professor
Nirmala Rao

The University of Hong Kong

Professor
Stephen Raudenbush

Department of Sociology, University of Chicago

Professor
Brent Roberts

University of Illinois

Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology
Dylan Robertson

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

Researcher
Andrea Rolla

Ministry of Education; Chile

Senior Advisor, Early Childhood Development
Arthur Rolnick

The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Senior Vice President and Director of Research
Aldo Rustichini

Department of Economics, University of Minnesota

Professor
Thomas Saias

University of Quebec in Montreal

Associated Professor
Norbert Schady

Inter-American Development Bank

Principal Economic Adviser
Herbert Scheithauer

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Professor for Developmental and Clinical Psychology
Alessandra Schneider

National Council of Health States Departments, Brazil

Technical Advisor
Lawrence Schweinhart

HighScope Educational Research Foundation

President
Daniel Jong Schwekendiek

Sungkyunkwan University

Assistant Professor
Burton Singer

Leader (ECI, HI)

University of Florida

Courtesy Professor, Emerging Pathogens Institute and Department of Mathematics
Joseph Sparling

The University of Melbourne (Australia)

Honorary Professorial Fellow
C. Katharina Spiess

German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and Free University Berlin (FU Berlin)

Professor
Stephen Suomi

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH

Chief, Laboratorty of Comparative Ethology, DIR
Petra Todd

University of Pennsylvania

Professor of Economics
Emma Tominey

University of York

Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Mark Tomlinson

Stellenbosch University

Associate Professor
Paul Tough

Journalist
Richard Tremblay

Senior Coordinator (ECI)

University of Montreal

Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Psychology
Arianna Zanolini

University of Chicago

PhD Student
Wladimir Zanoni

Chapin Hall at The University of Chicago

Researcher

The Becker-Friedman Institute for Research in Economics

Youth Human Capital and Economic Development Working Group (eci)

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