Charles F. Manski

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Charles Frederick "Chuck" Manski (born November 27, 1948 ) is an American economist at Northwestern University . He deals with econometrics , decision-making and public policy . Manski is known for his descriptions of partial identification and his economic analysis of social interactions .

Life

Manski earned a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970 and a Ph.D. in 1973 there. , each in economics.

In 1973 he received his first professorship (assistant professor) at Carnegie Mellon University , from 1977 as an associate professor . Since 1979 he was an associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , before moving to a full professorship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1983 . Manski has also been doing research for the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1983 . Since 1997 he has been a professor at Northwestern University .

Since 2015 Thomson Reuters has counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Economics due to the high number of his citations .

Manski is married and has two children.

Research and work

Reflection problem

Manski described the so-called reflection problem in 1993 in the article Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem (published in The Review of Economic Studies ). The problem arises when an econometrician tries to analyze social behavior: As with a simultaneous reflection of a moving person in the mirror, it is unclear whether the mirror image is the cause or effect of the movement. The problem is widespread in the analysis of social interaction and in the estimation of so-called peer effects (from peer for an influencing, similar person). He also addresses the problem in his 1995 book Identification Problems in the Social Sciences .

In the article, Manski further distinguishes three effects that, separately or together, can be the cause of observed similar behavior by group members and make the identification of social effects more difficult:

  • endogenous effect in which group members behave according to group behavior (e.g. peer pressure ),
  • exogenous or context effect in which the behavior of group members depends on exogenous characteristics,
  • Correlated effect in which group members behave similarly because they are similar to one another and therefore also belong to a group.

Manski cites the example of a school class in which pupils who are friends are assumed to influence their learning behavior and receive similar grades. The endogenous effect arises when the behavior of a student varies with the behavior of his reference group. The exogenous or context effect arises when individual learning behavior varies with the socio-economic composition of the group. The correlated effect arises when students from the same school write similar grades because they have similar family backgrounds or are taught by the same teachers.

Professional activities

In addition to his research, Manski was editor of the Journal of Human Resources from 1991 to 1994 and co-editor of the Econometric Society Monograph Series from 1983 to 1988 . He was also an associate editor for a number of other academic journals , including the renowned Econometrica journal .

He has also served on several committees for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Research Council .

Awards (selection)

Fonts

  • Public Policy in an Uncertain World: Analysis and Decisions , Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013.
  • Identification for Prediction and Decision , Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.
  • Social Choice with Partial Knowledge of Treatment Response , Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
  • Partial Identification of Probability Distributions , New York: Springer-Verlag, 2003.
  • Identification Problems in the Social Sciences , Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
  • Analog Estimation Methods in Econometrics , London: Chapman and Hall, 1988.
  • College Choice in America (with D. Wise), Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcing the 2015 Citation Laureates , at Thomson Reuters.
  2. ^ Manski, Charles F .: Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem . In: The Review of Economic Studies . tape 60 , no. 3 , 1993, p. 531-542 , JSTOR : 2298123 (English).
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter M. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved April 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Charles F. Manski: THE 2009 LAWRENCE R. KLEIN LECTURE: DIVERSIFIED TREATMENT UNDER AMBIGUITY. In: International Economic Review. 50, 2009, p. 1013, doi: 10.1111 / j.1468-2354.2009.00558.x .
  5. ^ Charles Manski. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved September 27, 2015 .
  6. ^ Professor Charles Manski - British Academy. In: britac.ac.uk. Retrieved April 3, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Manski, Charles F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manski, Charles Frederick (full name); Manski, Chuck (nickname); Manski, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1948