Arthur Goldberger

Arthur S. Goldberger
Econometrics
Born	November 20, 1930 (1930-11-20) (age 81)
Nationality	US
Institution	University of Wisconsin
Field	Econometrics
Alma mater	University of Michigan (PhD) NYU (B.S.)
Influences	Lawrence Klein Sydney Hook
Influenced	Jan Kmenta

Arthur Stanley Goldberger (20 November 1930-11 December 2009) was an econometrician and an economist. He worked with Nobel Prize winner Lawrence Klein on the development of the famous Klein–Goldberger macroeconomic computer model at the University of Michigan.^[1] He died at the age of 79.^[2]

He spent most of his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he helped build the Department of Economics. He wrote classic graduate and undergraduate econometrics textbooks, including Econometric Theory (1964), A Course in Econometrics (1991) and Introductory Econometrics (1998). Among his many accomplishments, he published a number of articles critically evaluating the literature on the heritability of IQ and other behavioral traits.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Nicholas M. Kiefer (1989). "The ET Interview: Arthur S. Goldberger". Econometric Theory 5: 133–160.
^ Dept. of Economics, University of Wisconsin, "Arthur Goldberger (1930-2009)",(accessed 12/17/2009) [1]

Jöreskog, K. G. and Goldberger, A. S. (1975). "Estimation of a model with multiple indicators and multiple causes of a single latent variable". Journal of the American Statistical Association 70 (351): 631–639. doi:10.2307/2285946. JSTOR 2285946.

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Name	Goldberger, Arthur
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Date of birth	20 November 1930
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Date of death	2009
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