Finis Welch Death - Dead - Obituary : First-class Labor Economist has Died.

Finis Welch Death – Dead – Obituary : First-class Labor Economist has Died.

Finis Welch died. He was an influential labor economist and a very nice person. Here is a picture taken in 2002, at the 80th birthday conference honoring Jacob Mincer that I organized. He is on the left. The other two are John Hause and Jim Smith, according to a statement posted online on Aug. 25, 2020 https://buff.ly/2CXour9

First-class labor economist and cofounder of STATA, Finis Welch, has died unexpectedly. The @uchicago PhD showed how unemployment benefits are a subsidy for layoffs, how modern agriculture is education intensive, and much more. https://t.co/RkWwRLh7XM
— caseybmulligan (@caseybmulligan) August 25, 2020

Cause of Death.

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Tributes.

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RIP Finis Welch. One of my favorite pieces of Econ trivia is how Finis Welch, Jim Smith, and of course Michael Grossman were all on faculty @CUNY https://t.co/hx5uZQEeMW
— Ryan Edwards (@RyanDEdwards) August 26, 2020

M. R. Jahan-Parvar
@mrjahan49
His research and business innovations changed the world. While I am not a user, I can see the huge contribution of STATA to empirical analysis. Rest in Peace!

A Data Pioneer: Honoring the Accomplished Career of Finis Welch | BFI –

First-class labor economist and cofounder of STATA, Finis Welch, has died unexpectedly. The @uchicago PhD showed how unemployment benefits are a subsidy for layoffs, how modern agriculture is education intensive, and much more. https://t.co/RkWwRLh7XM
— caseybmulligan (@caseybmulligan) August 25, 2020