%0 Report %A Heckman, James J. %T Gary Becker: Model Economic Scientist %D 2015 %8 2015 Feb %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 8827 %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8827 %X This paper presents Gary Becker's approach to conducting creative, empirically fruitful economic research. It describes the traits and methodology that made him such a productive and influential scholar. %K human capital %K empirical economics %K discrimination