Henry Schultz
| Henry Schultz | |
|---|---|
| Born | Henry Schultz September 4, 1893 Sharkawshchyna, Russian Empire (presently Belarus) |
| Died | November 26, 1938 (aged 45) San Diego, California, USA |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Fields | Econometrics |
| Institutions |
United States Census Bureau United States Department of Labor University of Chicago |
| Alma mater |
College of the City of New York Columbia University London School of Economics University College London |
| Doctoral advisor | Henry L. Moore |
| Doctoral students |
Herbert A. Simon Theodore O. Yntema H. Gregg Lewis |
| Influences | Milton Friedman |
| Spouse | Bertha Greenstein |
Henry Schultz (September 4, 1893 – November 26, 1938) was an American economist, statistician, and one of the founders of econometrics.
Henry Schultz was born on September 4, 1893 in a Polish family in Sharkawshchyna, in the Russian Empire (now part of Belarus). His family moved to New York City in the United States. Schultz completed his primary education, as well as undergraduate studies at the College of the City of New York, receiving a BA in 1916. For graduate work, Henry Schultz enrolled at Columbia University, but had to interrupt studies in 1917 because of World War I. After the war he received a scholarship which enabled him to spend 1919 at the London School of Economics and the Galton Laboratory of University College London, where he had the opportunity to attend Karl Pearson's lectures on statistics.
After returning to the US, in 1920 Schultz married to Bertha Greenstein. In the future years, the couple had two daughters, Ruth and Jean. Schultz continued studying for his doctoral degree at Columbia, while at the same time conducting statistical work for the War Trade Board, the United States Census Bureau and the United States Department of Labor. He was awarded a PhD in economics from Columbia in 1925 with a thesis entitled Estimation of Demand Curves, written under the supervision of Henry L. Moore.
In 1926, Schultz went to the University of Chicago, where he spent the rest of his career teaching and doing research. In 1930, he was one of the sixteen founding members of the Econometric Society.
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