Tony Lancaster

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Anthony Lancaster (born June 25, 1938) is a British-American Bayesian econometrician, Herbert H. Goldberger professor emeritus, Brown University, and fellow of the Econometric Society since 1991.[1]

Early life and education[]

He was born in Eccles, Manchester, on June 25, 1938. He failed his 11+, but passed at a second attempt and spent the next four years at the bottom of the C stream[2] at King George V Grammar School, Southport[3] He gained a first class honours in economics from Liverpool University in 1959. Awarded a State Studentship he moved to St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, to pursue a doctorate in economics.

Career[]

In 1963-64 he finished his PhD dissertation as a research fellow at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin,[4] and in 1964 he was hired at the University of Birmingham. In 1973 he moved to Hull University as a professor and became department chair; he stayed there until he was hired by Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (USA) in 1986 where he remained, also with a stint as department chair, until he retired in 2006. While at Brown he worked in health economics and was a member of the Department of Community Health in addition to the Economics department. Among the students whose graduate work he supervised were Guido Imbens, Wilbert Van der Klaauw,[5] Orna Intrator, Tieman Woutersen and Peter Hansen. Lancaster is an international fellow at the Centre for Microdata Methods and practice at University College London.[6]

Personal life[]

He married Jane Heawood in 1967; they have two sons, and a daughter from a first marriage.

Publications[]

Lancaster, Anthony (2004). An Introduction to Modern Bayesian Econometrics (PDF). Blackwells.

Lancaster, Anthony (2002). "T Orthogonal Parameters and Panel Data". Review of Economic Studies. 69 (3): 647–666. doi:10.1111/1467-937X.t01-1-00025.

Lancaster, Anthony (1990). The Econometric Analysis of Transition Data: An Econometric Society Monograph. Cambridge University Press.

Lancaster, Anthony; Imbens, Guido (1995). "Optimal Stock/Flow Panels". Journal of Econometrics. 66 (1–2): 325–348. doi:10.1016/0304-4076(94)01620-F.

Lancaster, Anthony; Imbens, Guido (1994). "Combining Micro and Macro Data in Microeconometric Model". Review of Economic Studies.

Lancaster, Anthony (1997). "Bayes WESML: Posterior Inference from Choice-Based Samples". Journal of Econometrics. 79 (2): 297–303. doi:10.1016/S0304-4076(96)00024-3.

Lancaster, Anthony; Imbens, Guido (1996). "Inference from Contaminated Samples". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

Lancaster, Anthony; Imbens, Guido (1996). "Efficient Estimation and Stratified Sampling". Journal of Econometrics.

Lancaster, Anthony (April 1997). "Exact Structural Inference in Optimal Job Search Models". Journal of Business Economics and Statistics.

Lancaster, Anthony; Intrator, Orna (March 1998). "Panel Data with Survival: Hospitalization of HIV Patients". Journal of the American Statistical Association. doi:10.1080/01621459.1998.10474086.

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References[]

  1. ^ "Fellows". The Econometric Society.
  2. ^ "The Red Rose" (PDF). The Old Georgians. 2002-01-01.
  3. ^ "The Red Rose" (PDF). The Old Georgians.
  4. ^ "Tony Lancaster". Economic & Social Research Institute.
  5. ^ Lancaster, Tony (1990). "Investigating Homelessness". Google Books.
  6. ^ "The Red Rose" (PDF). The Old Georgians. 2013-01-01.
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