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    Jacob Mincer (July 15, 1922 – August 20, 2006), was a father of modern labor economics. He was Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Economics and Social...
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  • The Mincer earnings function is a single-equation model that explains wage income as a function of schooling and experience. It is named after Jacob Mincer...
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  • The Jacob Mincer Award is an economic award issued by the Society of Labour Economists (SOLE) honouring lifetime contributions to the field of labour economics...
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    with the concept of investing on human beings". Together, Becker and Jacob Mincer founded Modern Household Economics, sometimes called the New Home Economics...
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    for Applied Econometrics from the Journal of Econometrics, the 2005 Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Achievement in Labor Economics, the 2005 Ulysses Medal...
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    popularization by economists of the Chicago School, in particular Gary Becker, Jacob Mincer, and Theodore Schultz. The early 20th century Austrian sociologist Rudolf...
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    economics, propelled by the new home economics started by Gary Becker, Jacob Mincer, and their students. Standard themes include: Altruism in the family...
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    Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-04115-8. OCLC 173468. Teixeira, Pedro N. (2007). Jacob Mincer: A Founding Father of Modern Labor Economics - Oxford Scholarship. Oxford...
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  • work on health economics was inspired by his professors Gary Becker and Jacob Mincer, the founders of the New Home Economics. Grossman has argued for a causal...
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    economic analysis of labor market inequality." She was awarded the 2017 Jacob Mincer Award by the Society of Labor Economists in recognition of lifetime of...
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  • the 1920's to 1940's) such as Frank Knight, Henry Simons, Lloyd Mints, Jacob Viner, Aaron Director and others. This group had diverse interests and approaches...
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  • under important economists, including Milton Friedman, Tjalling Koopmans, Jacob Marschak and Leonard Savage. While still a student, he was invited to become...
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    Douglass North Robert Fogel Robert M. Townsend New social economics Jacob Mincer Gary Becker James Heckman Thomas Sowell Sherwin Rosen Kevin M. Murphy...
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    Douglass North Robert Fogel Robert M. Townsend New social economics Jacob Mincer Gary Becker James Heckman Thomas Sowell Sherwin Rosen Kevin M. Murphy...
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    and financial writing in the Financial Analysts Journal United States Jacob Mincer Award Society of Labor Economists A lifetime of contributions to the...
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    Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers 2009: Jacob Mincer Award from the Society of Labor Economists 2009: The John R. Commons...
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    Douglass North Robert Fogel Robert M. Townsend New social economics Jacob Mincer Gary Becker James Heckman Thomas Sowell Sherwin Rosen Kevin M. Murphy...
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  • Douglass North Robert Fogel Robert M. Townsend New social economics Jacob Mincer Gary Becker James Heckman Thomas Sowell Sherwin Rosen Kevin M. Murphy...
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  • to do so in Knight's 28 years at Chicago. Stigler's influences included Jacob Viner and Henry Simons as well as students W. Allen Wallis and Friedman...
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    Douglass North Robert Fogel Robert M. Townsend New social economics Jacob Mincer Gary Becker James Heckman Thomas Sowell Sherwin Rosen Kevin M. Murphy...
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    Douglass North Robert Fogel Robert M. Townsend New social economics Jacob Mincer Gary Becker James Heckman Thomas Sowell Sherwin Rosen Kevin M. Murphy...
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    Douglass North Robert Fogel Robert M. Townsend New social economics Jacob Mincer Gary Becker James Heckman Thomas Sowell Sherwin Rosen Kevin M. Murphy...
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    Cheating" Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003, 118(3), pp. 843–77. (with Jacob, Brian A.). "The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names."...
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  • Capital Theory, which he formulated with the help of Gary Becker and Jacob Mincer. Schultz coined this theory in his book titled Investment in Human Capital;...
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    Douglass North Robert Fogel Robert M. Townsend New social economics Jacob Mincer Gary Becker James Heckman Thomas Sowell Sherwin Rosen Kevin M. Murphy...
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  • S. Becker / Hendrik S. Houthakker / Roy Radner 1989 Robert Eisner / Jacob Mincer / Guy H. Orcutt 1990 Victor R. Fuchs / Merton H. Miller 1991 Irving B...
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    earning a Master of Arts degree in 1933. He was strongly influenced by Jacob Viner, Frank Knight, and Henry Simons. Friedman met his future wife, economist...
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    Douglass North Robert Fogel Robert M. Townsend New social economics Jacob Mincer Gary Becker James Heckman Thomas Sowell Sherwin Rosen Kevin M. Murphy...
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    Douglass North Robert Fogel Robert M. Townsend New social economics Jacob Mincer Gary Becker James Heckman Thomas Sowell Sherwin Rosen Kevin M. Murphy...
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  • Jacob Viner (3 May 1892 – 12 September 1970) was a Canadian economist and is considered with Frank Knight and Henry Simons to be one of the "inspiring"...
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