Charles F. Manski

Curriculum Vitae

Short Biography

NOW IN PRINT: Identification for Prediction and Decision, Harvard University Press, 2007.

Forthcoming Publications

Cross Level/Ecological Inference, with W. Cho, in H. Brady, D. Collier,

and J. Box-Steffensmeier (editors), Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology,

Oxford University Press

Comparing the Point Predictions and Subjective Probability Distributions of Professional Forecasters, with J. Engelberg and J. Williams, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Social Planning with Partial Knowledge of Social Interactions

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

More on Monotone Instrumental Variables, with J. Pepper

The Econometrics Journal

Working Papers

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

Partial Prescriptions for Decisions with Partial Knowledge

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

Rounding Probabilistic Expectations in Surveys, with F. Molinari

Adaptive Partial Policy Innovation: Coping with Ambiguity through Diversification

Adaptive Partial Drug Approval

Using Elicited Choice Probabilities to Estimate Random Utility Models: Preferences for Electricity Reliability, with A. Blass and S. Lach

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)