Henry Schultz

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Henry Schultz was an American economist and early pioneer of econometrics, known for his influential work on demand analysis and for helping establish econometrics as a rigorous quantitative discipline.

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instanceOf American economist
economist
person
academicAdvisorOf future econometricians at the University of Chicago
academicDiscipline microeconomics
statistical economics
affiliation Chicago School economics
surface form: Chicago school of economics
areaOfInfluence United States economics profession
international econometrics community
citizenship American
contributedTo formal estimation of demand functions
foundations of modern econometrics
integration of statistics into economic analysis
use of statistical methods in economics
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
surface form: United States
educatedAt Columbia University
University of Chicago
employer University of Chicago
fieldOfWork demand analysis
econometrics
economics
genre applied statistics
economic theory
hasGender male
influenced development of econometric demand theory
influencedBy Alfred Marshall
Irving Fisher
Vilfredo Pareto
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics
surface form: University of Chicago Department of Economics
methodology econometric estimation of demand
use of statistical data to estimate elasticities
movement early econometrics
neoclassical economics
notableFor helping establish econometrics as a quantitative discipline
pioneering work in econometrics
rigorous quantitative demand analysis
notableWork The Theory and Measurement of Demand
occupation researcher
university professor
workFocus empirical testing of economic theory
measurement of demand curves
price and quantity relationships

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Econometric Society founder Henry Schultz
Fisher–Schultz Lecture namedAfter Henry Schultz