Robin Sickles

Robin C. Sickles is an American economist. After graduating from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1972, he earned a Ph.D. in 1976 from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is currently the Reginald Henry Hargrove Chair of Economics at Rice University. His research focus is on topics in applied econometrics, panel data, productivity, stochastic frontier analysis, empirical industrial organization, and labor economics. He is a Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics, has served as the editor-in-chief for the Journal of Productivity Analysis, and has had positions as Associate Editor for the Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Empirical Economics, Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, Southern Economic Journal, and the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies.[1] He has co-authored and edited eleven books and volumes and journal special issues related to applied econometric topics.[2][3][4] His most recent major work is Measurement of Productivity and Efficiency: Theory and Practice ( with Valentin Zelenyuk. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.) [5]

Robin C. Sickles
NationalityAmerican
InstitutionRice University
FieldEconometrics
Alma materGeorgia Institute of Technology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Selected publications

  • Schmidt, Peter; Sickles, Robin C. (1984). "Production Frontiers and Panel Data". Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. 2: 367–374.
  • Sickles, Robin C.; Taubman, Paul J. (1986). "An Analysis of the Health and Retirement Status of the Elderly" (PDF). Econometrica. 54 (6): 1339–1356. doi:10.2307/1914302. JSTOR 1914302.
  • Cornwell, Christopher; Schmidt, Peter; Sickles, Robin C. (1990). "Production Frontiers with Cross-Sectional and Time Series Variation in Efficiency Levels". Journal of Econometrics. 46 (1–2): 185–200. doi:10.1016/0304-4076(90)90054-W.
  • Kutlu, Levent; Sickles, Robin C. (2012). "Estimation of Market Power in the Presence of Firm Level Inefficiencies". Journal of Econometrics. 168: 141–155. doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2011.11.001.

Other

  • He is a Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics[6]
  • In 2008 he was listed in top 100 econometricians in the world ranked by the number of all econometric articles, 1989-2005 in WORLDWIDE ECONOMETRICS RANKINGS: 1989-2005 (Badi H. Baltagi, Econometric Theory)[7]
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References

  1. Productivity and Inequality. Springer International Publishing. 2018. ISBN 978-3-319-68677-6.
  2. Festschrift in Honor of Peter Schmidt: Econometric Methods and Applications. Sickles, R.C. and Horrace, W.C. (eds.) Springer Science & Business Media, New York, NY, 2014.
  3. Productivity and Efficiency Analysis: Proceedings from the 2014 North American Productivity Workshop, William H. Greene, Robin C. Sickles, Lynda Khalaf, Michael Veall, and Marcel-Cristian Voia (Eds.), New York: Springer Publishing, 2018.
  4. Oxford Handbook of Productivity, Grifell, E., Lovell, C.A.K., and Sickles, R.C, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
  5. Sickles, Robin C.; Zelenyuk, Valentin (2019). Measurement of Productivity and Efficiency: Theory and Practice.
  6. "List of the JE Fellows as of January 2011". Journal of Econometrics. 168 (2): vii–xix. 1 June 2012. doi:10.1016/S0304-4076(12)00092-9.
  7. Baltagi, Badi H. (14 August 2007). "Worldwide Econometrics Rankings: 1989–2005". Econometric Theory. 23 (5): 952. doi:10.1017/S026646660707051X.


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