Background
Chow grew up in Guangzhou in Guangdong province in South China, one of seven children in a wealthy family, and in Hong Kong, where the family fled after the 1937 Japanese invasion of China.
鄒至莊
economist university professor
Chow grew up in Guangzhou in Guangdong province in South China, one of seven children in a wealthy family, and in Hong Kong, where the family fled after the 1937 Japanese invasion of China.
Chow spent one year at Lingnan University in Guangzhou, then finished his undergraduate work at Cornell University.
The Chow test, commonly used in econometrics to test for structural breaks, was invented by him. He has also been influential in the economic policy of China, including being an adviser for the Economic Planning and Development Council of the Executive Yuan in Taiwan, and being an adviser for the Chinese State Commission for Restructuring the Economic System on economic reform. The family moved to Macao after the 1942 Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, then back to Guangzhou at the end of World World War World War II He entered graduate study in economics at the University of Chicago in 1951.
He did his 1955 dissertation there on the factors that determine the demand for automobiles, and in extending that work he developed the Chow test for determining the stability of regression coefficients across different data samples.
He subsequently was on the faculties of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then Cornell. He then worked at the International Business Machines Corporation Thomas Watson Research Center while also advising the government of Taiwan.
In 1970 he joined the faculty at Princeton University, where he remains.