Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College et al

Filing 624

AMICUS BRIEF filed by Amici Curiae Economists Michael Keane et al., in Support of Students for Fair Admissions . (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A)(Clark, Randall)

Exhibit A

AMICI CURIAE
Note: Institutional affiliations are provided for identification purposes only.
Michael P. Keane is Professor of Economics and Australian Laureate
Fellow at the University of New South Wales. Previously, Professor Keane was
Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota, New York University, and
Yale University, and the Nuffield Chair of Economics at Oxford. He is a member of
the Council of the Econometric Society and Chair of the Australasian Regional
Standing Committee of the Econometric Society. Professor Keane is recognized as a
leading expert on discrete choice modeling, human capital investment, the
economics of education, and consumer demand. He has published roughly 100
articles in leading journals in both economics and management science and has
received numerous honors, including the John D.C. Little Award, the Kenneth J.
Arrow Award, the Dennis J. Aigner Award, and the Australian Federation
Fellowship. He is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Fellow of the Journal
of Econometrics, and a Founding Fellow of the International Association for Applied
Econometrics.
Hanming Fang is Class of 1965 Term Professor of Economics at the
University of Pennsylvania and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of
Economic Research (NBER). Previously, Professor Fang held faculty positions at
Yale University and Duke University. Professor Fang is an applied microeconomist
with broad theoretical and empirical interests focusing on public economics. His
research covers topics ranging from discrimination, social economics, psychology
and economics, and welfare reform to public good provision mechanisms, auctions,
health insurance markets, and population aging. He is a Fellow of the Econometric
Society. In 2008, he received the Kenneth J. Arrow Award. He has been a co-editor
for leading economics journals, including the Journal of Public Economics and the
International Economic Review, and has served on the editorial board of numerous
journals.
Yingyao Hu is Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University.
Previously, Professor Hu held a faculty position at the University of Texas at
Austin. Professor Hu is an econometrician and an applied microeconomist with
research interests in micro-econometrics, empirical industrial organization, and
labor economics. His research covers topics ranging from identification and
estimation methods for microeconomic models with latent variables, such as ability,
belief, effort, and unobserved heterogeneity, to empirical topics including auctions,
learning behavior and subjective beliefs, unemployment rates, and fertility
decisions. He is a leading expert on measurement error models. He has published
many articles in leading journals in both economics and statistics. Since 2013, he
has been a Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics.
Glenn C. Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences,
Professor of Economics, and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Brown
University. Previously, he held faculty positions at Boston University, Harvard
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University, Northwestern University, and the University of Michigan. As an
academic economist, Professor Loury has published in the fields of applied
microeconomic theory, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource
economics, and the economics of race and inequality. He is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society, a Member of the
American Philosophical Society and of the Council on Foreign Relations, a former
Vice President of the American Economics Association, and a former President of
the Eastern Economics Association. He is a winner of the John von Neumann
Award and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and of a Carnegie Scholarship.
He has given the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Stanford (2007), the James
A. Moffett ’29 Lectures in Ethics at Princeton (2003), and the W. E. B. Du Bois
Lectures in African American Studies at Harvard (2000). As social critic and public
intellectual, Professor Loury has published over 200 essays and reviews in journals
of public affairs in the U.S. and abroad, writing mainly on the themes of racial
inequality and social policy. His books include One by One, From the Inside Out:
Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America (The Free Press 1995)
(winner of the American Book Award and the Christianity Today Book Award); The
Anatomy of Racial Inequality (Harvard University Press 2002); Ethnicity, Social
Mobility and Public Policy: Comparing the US and the UK (ed., Cambridge
University Press 2005); and Race, Incarceration and American Values (M.I.T. Press
2008).
John P. Rust is the Gallagher Family Professor of Economics at Georgetown
University. He was previously professor of economics at the University of Maryland,
Yale University, and the University of Wisconsin. Professor Rust is best known for
his research on the development of computationally tractable methods for
empirically modelling dynamic decision-making under uncertainty. In a series of
publications, Professor Rust demonstrated that these discrete dynamic
programming models provide accurate predictions of actual human decision-making
in a variety of contexts. Professor Rust was awarded the Ragnar Frisch Medal by
the Econometric Society in 1992 for his research. He is a Fellow of the Econometric
Society.
Matthew S. Shum is the J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Economics at the
California Institute of Technology. Previously, he held faculty positions at the
University of Toronto and Johns Hopkins University. His research lies at the
intersection of industrial organization, econometrics, and statistics. He has worked
on diverse topics ranging from methodological areas such as discrete-choice models,
dynamic modeling, and machine learning to applied areas including consumer
search and learning, voting and polarization, and the economics of internet
markets. He has over 50 publications in leading academic journals, including
Econometrica, the American Economic Review, Management Science, and the
Journal of Political Economy.

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