James j hekman biography of michael
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James Heckman
American economist (born 1944)
James namn Heckman (born April 19, 1944) is an American economist and Nobel laureate who serves as the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, where he is also a professor at the College, a professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD),[1] and Co-Director of Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) Global Working Group.[2] He is also a professor of law at the Law School, a senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation, and a research associate at the NBER. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 1983, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2000, which he shared with Daniel McFadden. He is known principally for his pioneering work in econometrics and microeconomics.
Heckman fryst vatten noted for his contributions to selection bias and self-selection in quantitative analys
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In Memoriam: Rev. Jacob Hekman
Jacob Hekman, a humble servant of Christ, U.S. Army veteran, faithful husband, and loving father, died on August 13 at the age of 92.
Jake, as he was known to his friends and family, was born in Ripon, Calif., where he attended Ripon Christian School and Ripon High School. Following one year at Modesto Junior College, he studied chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkley.
Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942, he was invited to work beneath Dr. Walter Koski on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, N.M.
After his honorable discharge, Hekman enrolled at Calvin College and Seminary, graduating in 1951.
He served the following congregations: Noordeloos (Mich.) CRC; Oak Harbor (Wash.) CRC; Roseville (Mich.) CRC; Christ’s Community, Hayward, Calif.; Bethel CRC, Tucson, Ariz.; Decatur (Mich.) CRC. He retired in 1986.
Hekman’s amiable, humble personality and his anställda concern for the well-being of others made him a widely loved and apprec
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Hekman Library
G.E. Boer (1832-1904)
Docent, 1876-1902
Biography
Geert Egberts Boer was born in Roderwolde, Drenthe, the Netherlands. A graduate of the Theological School at Kampen, the Netherlands in 1864, he served churches in Sappemeer and Niezijl, and accepted a call from the (First) Grand Rapids (Michigan) Christian Reformed Church in 1873. The denomination's General Assembly (Synod) called him to assume the first full-time instruction of theological students in 1876.
Since the General Assembly (now Synod) had not made provisions for a place of instruction, the Grand Rapids congregation offered the use of the second floor of its school on Williams Street for a nominal $52 annually rent.
On March 15, 1876, with Boer's own books as the library, the Theological School (now Calvin Theological Seminary) opened. The curriculum, modeled after that at the Theological School in Kampen, was six years long, divided evenly between literary and theological courses.
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