Professor Arthur Lewbel has been elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society, "An International Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics": the most prestigious learned society in the discipline of economics, with a world-wide membership. The Society publishes the journal Econometrica, one of the most selective and influential in economics. The annual election of Fellows selects about 15 candidates per year from the Society's membership, each of whom must receive at least 30 percent of current voting Fellows' votes.
Arthur Lewbel joined the Boston College faculty as a Professor in 1998. He earned the Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 and served as a professor at Brandeis University for several years, as well as a visiting professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Boston University. He serves on a number of editorial boards and has received several grants supporting his research from the National Science Foundation.
A recent study by Tom Coupé, based on the published works of the entire economics profession for 1990-2000, rates Arthur Lewbel as ranking 20 worldwide. A more narrowly defined study, focusing on the subdiscipline of econometrics (roughly speaking, the specialized branch of statistics employed in economic and financial research) rates Lewbel 16th among recently published econometricians. His most recent publications include "Calculating Compensation in Cases of Wrongful Death" (J. Econometrics, 2003); "Semiparametric Binary Choice Panel Data Models Without Strictly Exogenous Regressors" (Econometrica, 2002); "Nonparametric Censored and Truncated Regression" (Econometrica, 2002); "Demand Systems with and Without Errors" (American Economic Review, 2001); and "Semiparametric Qualitative Response Model Estimation with Instrumental Variables and Unknown Heteroskedasticity" (J. Econometrics, 2000). Full details are available on his personal web page.
17 Dec 2003