Halbert White

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]

Halbert Lynn White
Born	(1950-11-19)November 19, 1950 Kansas City, Missouri
Died	March 31, 2012(2012-03-31) (aged 61) San Diego, California
Nationality	American
Academic career
Field	Econometrics
Institution	University of Rochester University of California, San Diego
Alma mater	Princeton University Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Jerry A. Hausman[1] Robert Solow[1] Lester Thurow[1]
Doctoral students	Jeffrey Wooldridge
Contributions	White test Heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors

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

• White, Halbert (1982), "Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Misspecified Models", Econometrica, 50 (1): 1–25, doi:10.2307/1912526, hdl:10338.dmlcz/142956, JSTOR 1912526
• 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
• Hornik, Kurt; Stinchcombe, Maxwell; White, Halbert (1989). "Multilayer feedforward networks are universal approximators". Neural Networks. 2 (5): 359–366. doi:10.1016/0893-6080(89)90020-8. ISSN 0893-6080. S2CID 2757547.