Charles F. Manski

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography

Further information at charlesmanski.com

Autobiographical Reflections: Unlearning and Discovery, ET Interview with E. Tamer, Interview with S. Bowmaker, Interview with P. Barrieu

 

 

Working Papers

 

What is the General Welfare?: Welfare Economic Perspectives on Prosperity and Equity

 

Prediction with Differential Covariate Classification: Illustrated by Racial/Ethnic Classification in Medical Risk Assessment, with J. Mullahy and A. Venkataramani

 

Using Ordinal Voting to Compare the Utilitarian Welfare of a Status Quo and a Proposed Policy: A Simple Nonparametric Analysis

 

Accounting for Nonresponse in Election Polls: Total Margin of Error, with J. Dominitz

 

 Comprehensive OOS Evaluation of Predictive Algorithms with Statistical Decision Theory, with J. Dominitz

 

The Subtlety of Optimal Paternalism in a Population with Bounded Rationality, with E. Sheshinski

 

 

 

 

Links to Books

 

C. Manski, Discourse on Social Planning under Uncertainty, Cambridge University Press, 2024.

 

C. Manski, Patient Care under Uncertainty, Princeton University Press, 2019.

 

C. Manski, Public Policy in an Uncertain World: Analysis and Decisions, Harvard University Press, 2013

 

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 God’s Help, 1990 (book can be downloaded for private use)

 

Courses

 

Economics 483, Introduction to Econometrics, Winter 2025 (Ph.D. field course)

 

Economics 336, Analytical Methods for Public Policy, Winter 2025 (undergraduate elective course)

 

 

The Survey of Economic Expectations

 

SEE Introduction,  SEE Data and Codebooks

ICPSR Data and Documentation

 

 

STATEMENT TO RESTORE SCIENCE-BASED POLICY IN GOVERNMENT, By Concerned Members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, April 2018

Link to NAS Open Letter History statement, July 2020