Nicholas M. Kiefer (February 28, 1951 – March 12, 2024) was an Economics professor at

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. He received a fellowship award from the

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in 1986 for his "past achievements and ... promise of future accomplishments". Kiefer wrote graduate textbooks and monographs in

econometrics Econometrics is an application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships. M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics", '' The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics'', v. 2, p. 8 p. 8 ...

, including textbooks on job-search econometrics (''Empirical Labor Economics: The Search Approach'' with T. J. Devine and ''Search Models and Applied Labor Economics'' with G.R. Neumann). He wrote a textbook on the micro-econometrics of agents solving dynamic problems (''Economic Modeling and Inference'' with B. J. Christensen).

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Cornell University's description of Professor Nicholas Kiefer
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kiefer, Nicholas 21st-century American economists 1951 births Princeton University alumni Cornell University faculty Fellows of the Econometric Society 2024 deaths