Halbert White
Halbert Lynn White | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 19, 1950 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | March 31, 2012 (aged 61) San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Princeton University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jerry A. Hausman Robert Solow Lester Thurow |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Econometrics |
| Institutions | University of Rochester University of California, San Diego |
| Doctoral students | Jeffrey Wooldridge |
| Notable ideas | 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.