Title:

University Professor of Economics & Sociology

Affiliation:

University of Chicago

Chicago,Illinois  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2014

Award Discipline:

Behavioral and Social Science

Award Year:

2000

Citation:

"For his pioneering the economic analysis of racial discrimination, inventing the economics of human resources, producing the major modern innovations in economic demography and in economic criminology, and leading recent developments in how social forces shape individual economic behavior."

Presented by Dr. Neal Lane, Assistant to the President for Science & Technology, at a black-tie dinner awards ceremony at the National Building Museum, Washington, DC, Friday, December 1, 2000.

Nobel Laureate:

Economics, 1992