Charles F. Manski

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography

Some Autobiographical Reflections: Unlearning and Discovery

Forthcoming Publications

Diversified Treatment under Ambiguity, International Economic Review

Using Elicited Choice Probabilities to Estimate Random Utility Models:

Preferences for Electricity Reliability, with A. Blass and S. Lach

International Economic Review

Rounding Probabilistic Expectations in Surveys, with F. Molinari

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

More on Monotone Instrumental Variables, with J. Pepper

The Econometrics Journal

Diversified Policy Choice with Partial Knowledge of Policy Effectiveness

Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness

Working Papers

When Consensus Choice Dominates Individualism:

Jensen’s Inequality and Collective Decisions under Uncertainty

Competitive Lending with Partial Knowledge of Loan Repayment, with W. Brock

Actualist Rationality

Assessing the Temporal Variation of Macroeconomic Forecasts by a Panel of Changing Composition, with J. Engelberg and J. Williams

Measuring and Interpreting Expectations of Equity Returns, with J. Dominitz

Courses

Economics 480-1, Introduction to Econometrics, Fall 2008 (first-year Ph.D. course)

past examinations

Economics 483, Cross-Sectional Methods, Fall 2008 (Ph.D. field course)

Topic: Decision Making with Partial Identification and Finite-Sample Data

The Survey of Economic Expectations

SEE Introduction

SEE Data and Codebooks

Software

Bounds for Matlab: Program Zip File (BOUNDS_MATLAB) ; Documentation(BOUNDS_MATLAB)

Bounds for STATA: Program Zip File (BOUNDS_STATA) ; Documentation(BOUNDS_STATA)

Links to Books

C. Manski, Identification for Prediction and Decision, Harvard University Press, 2007

C. Manski, Social Choice with Partial Knowledge of Treatment Response, Princeton University Press, 2005.

C. Manski, Partial Identification of Probability Distributions, Springer-Verlag, 2003

C. Manski, J. Pepper, and C. Petrie (editors), Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don't Know Keeps Hurting Us, National Academy Press, 2001 (book can be read online)

B. Fischhoff and C. Manski (editors), Elicitation of Preferences, Kluwer, 2000

C. Manski, Identification Problems in the Social Sciences, Harvard, 1995

C. Manski and I. Garfinkel (editors), Evaluating Welfare and Training Programs, Harvard, 1992

C. Manski, Analog Estimation Methods in Econometrics, Chapman & Hall, 1988

(out-of-print book can be downloaded for private use)

C. Manski and D. Wise College Choice in America, Harvard, 1983

C. Manski and D. McFadden (editors), Structural Analysis of Discrete Data with Econometric Applications, MIT Press, 1981 (out-of-print book can be downloaded for private use)

Samuil Manski, With Gods Help, 1990 (book can be downloaded for private use)