Tony Lancaster

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

Anthony Lancaster
Born (1938-06-25) June 25, 1938
Eccles, Greater Manchester, UK
Institution
FieldBayesian econometrics
Alma mater
Doctoral
advisor		Michael James Farrell
Doctoral
students		Guido Imbens

Early life and education

He was born in Eccles, Manchester, on June 25, 1938. He failed his eleven-plus, 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 the University of Liverpool in 1959. He was awarded a State Studentship and moved to St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he earned a doctorate in economics under M.J. Farrell.

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. In 1986 he was hired by Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He served as department chair at Brown and 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 Nobel laureate 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}}: 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.

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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