Robert FERBER

Background

Ferber, Robert was born on February 13, 1922 in New York City. Son of Samuel and Dinah (Rosenthal) Ferber.

Education

Bachelor of Science, City College New York, 1942; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1945; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1951; postgraduate, Columbia University, 1946-1947.

Career

Studies on the reliability of economic data obtained in household surveys and ways of improving these data. Investigations of consumer saving and spending patterns and their determinants in industrialised and in lessdeveloped countries. Studies of the roles of expectations in consumer and business behaviour.

Professor Economics and Business Administration, Director, Survey Research Laboratory, University Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1951-1979, 1964-1979.

Professor Marketing, University Illinois Chicago Circle, 1979-1981. Editor, J. Marketing Research, 1964-1969, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1969-1976, J. Consumer Research, since 1977.

Achievements

• Robert Ferber has been listed as a noteworthy market analyst, statistician, economist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • Handbook of Marketing Research

    (Reference book on marketing.)

  • Research methods in economics & business
  • Research Methods in Economics and Business
  • Collecting Financial Data By Consumer Panel Techniques: A Pilot Study

Membership

Member American Statistical Association, American Economics Association, American Marketing Association (president 1969-1970), American Wind Energy Association, Association for Consumer Research, Econmetric Society, Latin American Studies Association.

Connections

Married Marianne Abeles, August 18, 1946. Children: Don Richard, Ellen J.

Father:

Samuel Ferber

Mother:

Dinah (Rosenthal) Ferber

Spouse:

Marianne Abeles

child:

Ellen J. Ferber

child:

Don Richard Ferber