Halbert Lynn White
Born(1950-11-19)November 19, 1950
Kansas City, Missouri
DiedMarch 31, 2012(2012-03-31) (aged 61)
San Diego, California
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
InstitutionUniversity of Rochester
University of California, San Diego
FieldEconometrics
Alma materPrinceton University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral
advisor		Jerry A. Hausman[1]
Robert Solow[1]
Lester Thurow[1]
Doctoral
students		Jeffrey Wooldridge
ContributionsWhite test
Heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors

Halbert Lynn White Jr. (November 19, 1950 – March 31, 2012)[2][3] was the Chancellor’s Associates Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4]

Education and career

White, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, graduated salutatorian from Southwest High School in 1968.[5] He went on to study at Princeton University, receiving his BA in economics in 1972. He earned his PhD in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, under the supervision of Jerry A. Hausman and Robert Solow. White spent his first years as an assistant professor in the University of Rochester before moving to University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 1979. He remained at UCSD until his untimely death from cancer.[2]

Research

White was well known in the field of econometrics for his 1980 paper on robust standard errors (which is among the most-cited paper in economics since 1970), and for the heteroscedasticity-consistent estimator and the test for heteroskedasticity that are named after him.[6][7] A 1982 paper by White contributed strongly to the development of quasi-maximum likelihood estimation.[4][8] He also contributed to numerous other areas such as neural networks and medicine. In 1999, White co-founded an economic consulting firm, Bates White, which is based in Washington, D.C..[9]

Bibliography

Books

  • White, Halbert (1992). Artificial neural networks : approximation and learning theory. Oxford, UK. ISBN 1-55786-329-6. OCLC 25202646.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • White, Halbert (1994). Estimation, inference, and specification analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-25280-6. OCLC 26673547.
  • White, Halbert (1998). Advances in Econometric Theory: The selected works of Halbert White. Cheltenham, UK: E. Elgar. ISBN 1-85898-222-7. OCLC 38485926.
  • White, Halbert (2001). Asymptotic theory for econometricians (Rev. ed.). San Diego: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-746652-5. OCLC 46634737.
  • White, Halbert (2004). New perspectives in econometric theory: The selected works of Halbert White. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 1-84376-586-1. OCLC 53458595.

Selected papers

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hausman, Jerry (2013), "Hal White: Time at MIT and Early Life Days of Research", in Chen, Xiaohong; Swanson, Norman R. (eds.), Recent Advances and Future Directions in Causality, Prediction, and Specification Analysis, New York: Springer, pp. 209–218, ISBN 978-1-4614-1652-4.
  2. 1 2 "Halbert L. White, University of California, San Diego, Professor and Founder of Bates White Economic Consulting, dies at age 61". Bates White. April 2, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Halbert L. White Jr., 1950–2012". James D. Hamilton, UCSD Department of Economics. Archived from the original on October 14, 2012. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
  4. 1 2 StataCorp (2013). Stata User's Guide: Release 13 (PDF). College Station, TX: StataCorp LP. p. 310. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  5. ↑ My Journey to UC San Diego Archived 2015-05-15 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ "Bates White | Professionals | Halbert White, PhD". Archived from the original on 2009-07-27. Retrieved 2010-02-15.
  7. ↑ White, Halbert (1980). "A Heteroskedasticity-Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimator and a Direct Test for Heteroskedasticity". Econometrica. 48 (4): 817–838. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.11.7646. doi:10.2307/1912934. JSTOR 1912934.
  8. ↑ White, Halbert (1982). "Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Misspecified Models". Econometrica. 50 (1): 1–25. doi:10.2307/1912526. hdl:10338.dmlcz/142956. JSTOR 1912526.
  9. ↑ "Our Firm".


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