Edward E. Leamer

Edward E. Leamer
Born (1944-05-24) May 24, 1944 (age 80)
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
FieldEconometrics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Edward Emory Leamer (born May 24, 1944) is a professor of economics and statistics at UCLA. He is Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast.[1]

He attended Princeton (B.A., mathematics, 1966) and the University of Michigan (M.A., mathematics, Ph.D., economics, 1970).[2]

Leamer is the author of 4 books and over 100 articles on a range of subjects especially including applied econometrics and quantitative international economics.

Leamer was the vice presidential nominee on Laurence Kotlikoff's independent ticket in the 2016 US presidential election.

Leamer is known amongst economists for his paper "Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics",[3] widely referred to as Leamer's critique, which is said to have catalyzed the implementation of more rigorous research designs in the economic sciences.[4]

  1. ^ "About Us | UCLA Anderson School of Management". www.anderson.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  2. ^ Edward E. Leamer Home Page and CV Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Leamer, Edward E. (1983). "Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics". The American Economic Review. 73 (1): 31–43. ISSN 0002-8282. JSTOR 1803924.
  4. ^ "Edward Leamer Deserves a Nobel Prize for Improving Argumentation That Uses Statistics · Econ Journal Watch : Sensitivity analysis, econometrics, specification search, data mining, natural experiments, replication, statistical inference". econjwatch.org. Retrieved 2021-02-04.