Lance Lochner

Associate Professor

Research Interests

Labour Economics; Economics of Education; Economics of Crime

Teaching Fields

Labour Economics

Representative Publications

"Earnings Functions and Rates of Return," Journal of Human Capital, 2(1): 1-31 (Spring 2008), with James J. Heckman and Petra Todd.

"The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement," Journal of Human Capital, 1(1): 37-89 (Winter 2007), with Philippe Belley.

"Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System," American Economic Review, 97(1): 444-460 (March 2007).

"The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports," American Economic Review, 94(1): 155-189 (March 2004), with E. Moretti.

"Education, Work, and Crime: A Human Capital Approach," International Economic Review, 45(3): 811-43 (August 2004).

"Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents," Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 1(1) (January 1998), with J. Heckman and C. Taber.

Other Papers

"The Nature of Credit Constraints and Human Capital" (February 2010), with Alexander Monge-Naranjo.

"Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income: A Canada-U.S. Comparison" (October, 2009), with Philippe Belley and Marc Frenette.

"Education and Crime," in B. McGraw, P. Peterson and E. Baker (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition, Amsterdam: Elsevier, forthcoming.

"Intergenerational Transmission," in L. Blume and S. Durlauf (eds.), New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, Palgrave Macmillan (2008).

"The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Ctedit," NBER Working Paper No. 14599 (2008), with Gordon Dahl.

"Borrowing Constraints on Families with Young Children," Innovation in Education, Cleveland: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland: 39-48 (2006), with Elizabeth Caucutt.

"Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation," in E. Hanushek and F. Welch (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 1, Chapter 12, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science (2006), with Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman and Dimitriy Masterov.

"Earnings Functions, Rates of Return, and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond," in E. Hanushek and F. Welch (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 1, Chapter 7, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science (2006), with James J. Heckman and Petra Todd.

"Social Networks and the Aggregation of Individual Decisions," NBER Working Paper No. 8979 (2004), with D. Lee Heavner.

"Human Capital Formation with Endogenous Credit Constraints," NBER Working Paper No. 8815 (2004), with Alexander Monge-Naranjo.

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Courses

  • 9639A - Applied Microeconometrics
    Section - 001
  • 3390G - Special Topics - The Economics of Human Behaviour
    Section - 001