Henry Schultz

American economist and statistician

Henry Schultz (September 4, 1893 – November 26, 1938) was an American economist, statistician, and one of the founders of econometrics. Paul Samuelson named Schultz (along with Harry Gunnison Brown, Allyn Abbott Young, Henry Ludwell Moore, Frank Knight, Jacob Viner, and Wesley Clair Mitchell) as one of the several "American saints in economics" born after 1860.²

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Born Sep 4, 1893, died Nov 26, 1938.¹

Companies

Econometric SocietyFounder¹³

Early life and education

Date not recordedColumbia University^{3 4}
Date not recordedCity College of New York^{3 4}
Date not recordedGalton Laboratory^{3 4}
Date not recordedLondon School of Economics and Political Science^{3 4}

Career

Occupation: statistician, economist.⁷

Date not recordedWorked at University of Chicago^{4 5}
Date not recordedWorked at Tariff Commission^{4 5}
Date not recordedWorked at United States Department of Labor^{4 5}
Date not recordedFounded Econometric Society⁶

Led by his belief that economics needs rigorous quantitative study to become a science, Henry Schultz was one of the founders of mathematical and statistical economics. His research was centered around a large program dedicated to the theory and estimation of private demand for goods functions, a project which started in the early 1920s, during his studies at the University of Chicago, and was completed shortly before his death with the publication of his book, The Theory and Measurement of Demand.

Selected publications

Schultz, Henry (1925). "The Statistical Law of Demand as Illustrated by the Demand for Sugar". Journal of Political Economy. XXXIII (5): 481–504. doi:10.1086/253706. S2CID 199882230. and XXXIII (6): 577–637. (PhD thesis)

Schultz, Henry (1928). Statistical Laws of Demand and Supply with Special Application to Sugar. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. OCLC 1936159.

Schultz, Henry (1930). The Meaning of Statistical Demand Curves. University of Chicago.

Schultz, Henry (1938). The Theory and Measurement of Demand. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

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Personal life

BornSep 4, 1893, Šarkaŭščyna⁸
DiedNov 26, 1938, San Diego⁹
CitizenshipUnited States¹⁰

Awards

1933Fellow of the Econometric Society^{11 12}
1933Guggenheim Fellowship^{4 11}
Date not recordedFellow of the American Statistical Association¹¹

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