Charles Manski
| Charles F. Manski | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 27, 1948 |
| Citizenship | U.S.A. |
| Institution |
Northwestern University University of Wisconsin-Madison Hebrew University of Jerusalem Carnegie-Mellon University |
| Field | Econometrics |
| Alma mater |
MIT Boston Latin School |
| Doctoral advisor |
Franklin M. Fisher |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Charles Frederick Manski (born November 27, 1948 in Boston), is the Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, an econometrician in the realm of rational choice theory, and an innovator in the arena of parameter identification. His research spans econometrics, judgment and decision, and the analysis of social policy (such as work on school choice). A specialist in prediction and decision, he is known within the economics field for landmark work on “partial identification,” identification of choice models, and identification of social interactions. He has also performed substantial empirical research on measurement of expectations in surveys.
Manski was predicted to win the Nobel Prize in 2015 by Reuters along with two other economists. Chicago economist John A. List for his work on field experiments and English economist Richard Blundell, for his work on labor markets were also listed as favorites to win a future Nobel Prize.
He is the son of Holocaust survivor and Sugihara visa recipient Samuil Manski and Estelle Zonn Manski. He grew up in Dorchester and West Roxbury, both in Massachusetts, attended Boston Latin School, and spent many afternoons in the family diner. One day, while leading a Torah reading, he had an epiphany that led him away from religious studies and towards scientific skepticism:
"[I] learned something about why dogmas can be tenacious and irreconcilable. Many doctrines pose nonrefutable hypotheses. That is, they make statements about the world that are impossible to disprove. For example, it is impossible to disprove the hypothesis that the god of the Torah created the universe in six days and then rested on the seventh day. It is similarly impossible to disprove the hypothesis that the universe was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster."
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