Background

Ethnicity: His father - Samuel Henry Nerlov - was a native of Belarus (Vitebsk)

NERLOVE, Marc Leon was born in 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.

Education

Bachelor of Arts University Chicago, 1952. Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy Johns Hopkins University, 1955, 1956. Honorary Dr, University Mannheim, 1982.

Career

Professional Activities:

Econometric Society: President, 1981; First Vice-President, 1980; Second Vice-President, 1979; Council 1963-66 and 1976-78; Chairman Program Committee, 1961 and 1975; Chairman, Frisch Medal Selection Committee, 1990; Chairman, 1990 Nominating Committee for Officers and Council.

International Economic Association: Chairman, Econometrics Section, 1989.

American Economic Association: Executive Committee, 1977-79; Editorial Boards, American Economic Review, 1970-72, and Journal of Economic Literature, 1969-71; Nominating Committee, 1964.

Director, Mathematical Social Science Board Summer Workshop on “Lags in Economic Behavior: Their Interpretation and Estimation,” 1970.

American Statistical Association: Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1960-62; Advisory Committee to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1964-69; Advisory Committee to the Civil Aeronautics Board, 1966-68.

Achievements

• He earned a Bachelor of Arts with honors in mathematics in 1952 from the University of Chicago.

Works

• book

  • Analysis of Economic Time Series: A Synthesis

    (In this edition Nerlove and his co-authors illustrate tec...)

  • Distributed lags and demand analysis for agricultural and other commodities (Agriculture handbook / United States Department of Agriculture)
  • ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC TIME SERIES: A SYNTHESIS. Economic Theory, Econometrics, and Mathematical Economics Series.
  • Estimation and identification of Cobb-Douglas production functions

  • Household and Economy: Welfare Economics of Endogenous Fertility, with A. Razin and E. Sadka. New York: Academic Press, Incorporated, 1987

  • Quantitative Economics and Development: Essays in Memory of Ta-Chung Liu, edited with L. R. Klein and S.C. Tsiang. New York: Academic Press, Incorporated, 1980

  • Methodology for Subjective Assessment of Technological Advancement, (with S. J. Press and A. J. Harman), Research and Development Corporation Research Report R- 1375, 1975

  • Univariate and Multivariate Log-Linear and Logistic Models, (with Society of Jesus (Jesuit) Press), Research and Development Corporation R-1306-EDA/National Institutes of Health. Santa Monica: Research and Development Corporation, 1973

  • Love and Life between the Censuses: A Model of Family Decision Making in Puerto Rico, 1950-60, with T.P. Schultz, Research and Development Corporation RM-6332-Agency for International Development. Santa Monica: Research and Development Corporation, 1970

  • Distributed Lags and Demand Analysis, Agricultural Handbook Northern 141. Washington, District of Columbia: Government Printing Office, 1958

• monograph

  • The Supply Response for Rubber in Sri Lanka: A Preliminary Analysis, with M.J. Hartley and R.K. Peters. World Bank Staff Working Paper Northern 657. Washington, District of Columbia: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1984

  • Scientific Papers of Tjalling C. Koopmans, edited with M. Beckmann and C.F. Christ. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1970

  • Selected Readings in Econometrics from Econometrica, edited with J.W. Hooper. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1970

  • Estimation and Identification of Cobb-Douglas Production Functions. Chicago/Amsterdam: Rand McNally/North Holland, 1965

  • The Dynamics of Supply: Estimation of Farmers' Response to Price. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1958

Connections

Father:

Samuel

Mother:

Evelyn