Halbert White

Halbert Lynn White
Born	(1950-11-19)November 19, 1950 Kansas City, Missouri
Died	San Diego, California
Nationality	American
Institution	University of California, San Diego
Field	Econometrics
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Influenced	Jeffrey Wooldridge
Contributions	White test Heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors

Halbert Lynn White, Jr. (November 19, 1950 – March 31, 2012) 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. A native of Kansas City, Missouri, White graduated salutatorian from Southwest High School in 1968. He earned his PhD in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, and spent his first years as an assistant professor in the University of Rochester before moving to UCSD in 1979.

He was well known in the field of econometrics for his 1980 paper on robust standard errors (which is the most-cited paper in economics since 1970), and for the heteroscedasticity-consistent estimator and the test for heteroskedascity that are named after him. A 1982 paper by White contributed strongly to the development of quasi-maximum likelihood estimation. 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 has offices in Washington, D.C. and San Diego, California.

External links

• Faculty profile at the University of California, San Diego's website
• Halbert Lynn White, Jr. at the Mathematics Genealogy Project