Lance Lochner
University of Western Ontario
Associate Professor and Director, CIBC Centre for Human Capital and Productivity
Lance Lochner is Associate Professor and CIBC Chair in Human Capital and Productivity in the Department of Economics at the University of Western Ontario. He is the current Director of the CIBC Centre for Human Capital and Productivity and holds a Canada Research Chair in Human Capital and Productivity. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1998 and spent five years at the University of Rochester and one year as a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution before moving to the University of Western Ontario. Professor Lochner's research is largely devoted to the theoretical and empirical study of human capital formation throughout the lifecycle. Previous and current research explores the interaction between human capital and criminal behavior, financial returns to schooling, post-school human capital acquisition, the evolution of earnings inequality in the U.S., the interaction of early and late investments in human capital, the relationship between family income and early child outcomes as well as educational attainment, and the nature of credit constraints and government lending programs in the education market.
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Email: llochner@uwo.ca
Homepage: http://economics.uwo.ca/faculty/lochner/