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Lance Lochner is a full-time Professor and CIBC Chair in Human Capital and Productivity at the Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario. He serves as Director of the CIBC Centre for Human Capital and Productivity and holds a Canada Research Chair in the same field.
- Ph.D. in Economics from University of Chicago (1998)
- BA in Economics from University of Wisconsin–Madison (1993)
His research spans labor economics, human capital formation across the lifecycle, and their intersections with crime, education policy, and inequality. Key areas include:
- Interaction between human capital and criminal behavior
- Financial returns to schooling
- Intergenerational transmission of skill
- Credit constraints in education
- Early childhood development
- Public policy evaluation (e.g., EITC impacts)
Recent work analyzes maternal time allocation under tax credits, skill production in children, and wage inequality dynamics. Publications focus on empirical modeling of human capital, with methodological contributions to instrumental variable testing.
- CIBC Chair in Human Capital and Productivity
- Canada Research Chair recipient
Lochner’s empirical methods address endogeneity in education-crime relationships and skill formation models. His directorship at the CIBC Centre and collaborations with institutions like NBER and Bank of Canada highlight his policy-relevant research agenda.
