Stephen Goldfeld

{{short description|American economist}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1940|8|9|mf=y}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|1995|8|25|1940|8|9|mf=y}}

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| institution = Princeton University

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| alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University

| doctoral_advisor = Albert Ando

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| doctoral_students = Dennis Mueller
Orley Ashenfelter
Joseph Altonji

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| contributions = Goldfeld–Quandt test

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Stephen Michael Goldfeld (August 9, 1940 – August 25, 1995) was a Princeton University economics professor and provost who served on the Council of Economic Advisers during the Carter administration.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/29/obituaries/stephen-goldfeld-55-professor-was-chief-economic-forecaster.html |title=Stephen Goldfeld, 55, Professor; Was Chief Economic Forecaster |newspaper=New York Times |date=August 29, 1995 }}

Goldfeld received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1960 at the age of twenty and a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963 at the age of twenty three, when he joined the Princeton faculty. As an academic he specialized in financial institutions and in econometrics. He was an associate editor of the American Economic Review and other major economic journals. He died in 1995 at the age of 55 of lung cancer.