Charles Frederick Manski

Has been Board of Trustees Professor in Economics at Northwestern University since 1997. Formerly was a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1983-98), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1979-83), and Carnegie Mellon University (1973-80). Received his BS and PhD in economics from MIT in 1970 and 1973. His research spans econometrics, judgement and decision, and the analysis of social policy. Author of Public Policy in an Uncertain World (Harvard University Press, 2013), Identification for Prediction and Decision (Harvard University Press, 2007), Partial Identification of Probability Distributions (Springer-Verlag, 2003), Identification Problems in the Social Sciences (Harvard University Press, 1995), and Analog Estimation Methods in Econometrics (Chapman & Hall, 1988), co-author of College Choice in America (Harvard University Press, 1983), and co-editor of Evaluating Welfare and Training Programs (Harvard University Press, 1992) and Structural Analysis of Discrete Data with Econometric Applications (MIT Press, 1981). Has been editor of the Journal of Human Resources (1991-94), co-editor of the Econometric Society Monograph Series (1983-88), and associate editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives (1986-89), Econometrica, (1980-88), the Journal of the American Statistical Association (1983-85, 2002-04), and Transportation Science (1978-84). Has served as Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty (1988-91) and as Chair of the Board of Overseers of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1994-98). At the National Research Council, he has been Chair of the Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs(1998-2001), and a member of the Committee on Law and Justice (2009-2015), the Committee on National Statistics (1996-2000), and the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (1992-98). An elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.  An elected fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.