Halbert White
{{Short description|American economist}}
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{{Infobox economist
| name = Halbert Lynn White
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1950|11|19|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Kansas City, Missouri
| death_date = {{death date and age|2012|3|31|1950|11|19|mf=y}}
| death_place = San Diego, California
| nationality = American
| institution = University of Rochester
University of California, San Diego
| field = Econometrics
| alma_mater = Princeton University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| doctoral_advisor = Jerry A. Hausman{{citation | last1 = Hausman | first1 = Jerry | contribution = Hal White: Time at MIT and Early Life Days of Research | editor-last1 = Chen | editor-first1 = Xiaohong | editor-last2 = Swanson | editor-first2 = Norman R. | title = Recent Advances and Future Directions in Causality, Prediction, and Specification Analysis | pages = 209–218 | publisher = Springer | location = New York | year = 2013 | isbn= 978-1-4614-1652-4 | postscript = .}}
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| doctoral_students= Jeffrey Wooldridge
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| contributions = White test
Heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors
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Halbert Lynn White Jr. (November 19, 1950 – March 31, 2012){{cite web|url=http://www.bateswhite.com/news.php?NewsID=144|title=Halbert L. White, University of California, San Diego, Professor and Founder of Bates White Economic Consulting, dies at age 61| publisher=Bates White|date=April 2, 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2012/04/halbert_l_white.html|title=Halbert L. White Jr., 1950–2012|publisher=James D. Hamilton, UCSD Department of Economics|access-date=April 1, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014064433/http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2012/04/halbert_l_white.html|archive-date=October 14, 2012}} 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.{{cite book|author1=StataCorp|title=Stata User's Guide: Release 13|date=2013|publisher=StataCorp LP|location=College Station, TX|page=310|url=https://www.stata.com/manuals13/u.pdf#page=314 |access-date=9 August 2014}}
Education and career
White, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, graduated salutatorian from Southwest High School in 1968.[http://economics.ucsd.edu/economicsinaction/issue-4/my-journey-to-ucsd.php My Journey to UC San Diego] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150515085049/http://economics.ucsd.edu/economicsinaction/issue-4/my-journey-to-ucsd.php |date=2015-05-15 }} 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.
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.{{cite web |url=http://www.bateswhite.com/people/bios/white_halbert.htm |title=Bates White | Professionals | Halbert White, PhD |access-date=2010-02-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090727132259/http://www.bateswhite.com/people/bios/white_halbert.htm |archive-date=2009-07-27 }}{{cite journal | last = White | first = Halbert | title = A Heteroskedasticity-Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimator and a Direct Test for Heteroskedasticity | journal = Econometrica | volume = 48 | number = 4 | pages = 817–838 | jstor = 1912934 | year = 1980 | doi = 10.2307/1912934| citeseerx = 10.1.1.11.7646 }} A 1982 paper by White contributed strongly to the development of quasi-maximum likelihood estimation.{{cite journal|last1=White|first1=Halbert|title=Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Misspecified Models|journal=Econometrica|date=1982|volume=50|issue=1|pages=1–25| jstor = 1912526 |doi=10.2307/1912526|hdl=10338.dmlcz/142956|hdl-access=free}} 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..{{Cite web | url=http://www.bateswhite.com/about.php | title=Our Firm}}
Bibliography
=Books=
- {{Cite book |last=White |first=Halbert |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25202646 |title=Artificial neural networks : approximation and learning theory |date=1992 |isbn=1-55786-329-6 |location=Oxford, UK |oclc=25202646}}
- {{Cite book |last=White |first=Halbert |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26673547 |title=Estimation, inference, and specification analysis |date=1994 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-25280-6 |location=Cambridge |oclc=26673547}}
- {{Cite book |last=White |first=Halbert |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38485926 |title=Advances in Econometric Theory: The selected works of Halbert White |date=1998 |publisher=E. Elgar |isbn=1-85898-222-7 |location=Cheltenham, UK |oclc=38485926}}
- {{Cite book |last=White |first=Halbert |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46634737 |title=Asymptotic theory for econometricians |date=2001 |publisher=Academic Press |isbn=0-12-746652-5 |edition=Rev. |location=San Diego |oclc=46634737}}
- {{Cite book |last=White |first=Halbert |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53458595 |title=New perspectives in econometric theory: The selected works of Halbert White |date=2004 |publisher=Edward Elgar |isbn=1-84376-586-1 |location=Cheltenham |oclc=53458595}}
=Selected papers=
- {{Citation |last1=White|first1=Halbert|title=Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Misspecified Models|journal=Econometrica|date=1982|volume=50|issue=1|pages=1–25| jstor = 1912526 |doi=10.2307/1912526|hdl=10338.dmlcz/142956|hdl-access=free}}
- {{Citation | last = White | first = Halbert | title = A Heteroskedasticity-Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimator and a Direct Test for Heteroskedasticity | journal = Econometrica | volume = 48 | number = 4 | pages = 817–838 | jstor = 1912934 | year = 1980 | doi = 10.2307/1912934| citeseerx = 10.1.1.11.7646 }}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Hornik |first1=Kurt |last2=Stinchcombe |first2=Maxwell |last3=White |first3=Halbert |date=1989 |title=Multilayer feedforward networks are universal approximators |url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0893-6080%2889%2990020-8 |journal=Neural Networks |language=en |volume=2 |issue=5 |pages=359–366 |doi=10.1016/0893-6080(89)90020-8 |s2cid=2757547 |issn=0893-6080}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100326002909/http://weber.ucsd.edu/~hwhite/ Faculty profile] at the University of California, San Diego's website
- {{MathGenealogy|id=44130|title=Halbert Lynn White Jr.}}
- {{cite news|url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/science/sdut-will-ucsd-economist-win-nobel-prize-monday-2011oct09-htmlstory.html|title=UCSD doesn't get Nobel Prize in economics|first=Gary|last=Robbins|newspaper=U-T San Diego|date=October 9–10, 2011|access-date=March 5, 2019}}
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Category:American econometricians
Category:Economists from California
Category:University of California, San Diego faculty
Category:Princeton University alumni
Category:MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
Category:Place of birth missing
Category:Place of death missing
Category:Fellows of the Econometric Society
Category:University of Rochester faculty
Category:American mathematical statisticians
Category:People from Kansas City, Missouri
Category:Machine learning researchers
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