They wouldn't know the right times to laugh during the econometrician jokes.
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Ask any econometrician or statistician and they will tell you that.
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His most important mentor at the University was Henry Schultz who was an econometrician and mathematical economist.
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Instead, the econometrician observes the years of education of and the wages paid to people who differ along many dimensions.
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I write about the man behind the rankings, an econometrician named Bob Morse, who is a genuinely gifted and dedicated professional, as both a journalist and statistical wizard.
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Last year, many economists hoped that Zvi Griliches, a noted econometrician who was unquestionably deserving of the prize, and was suffering from a long illness, would win.
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Kuznets, however, was neither a Keynesian nor an econometrician-he took his cues from Mitchell's Institutionalism-as exemplified in his 1930 methodological pieces.
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Unless the econometrician controls for place of birth in the above equation, the effect of birthplace on wages may be falsely attributed to the effect of education on wages.
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An economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods
Econometrics is concerned with the tasks of developing and applying quantitative or statistical methods to the study and elucidation of economic principles. Econometrics combines economic theory with statistics to analyze and test economic relationships. ...
Someone who studies economies with a view to mathematics