Tony Lancaster
Anthony Lancaster (June 25, 1938 – December 10, 2022) was a British-American economist who specialized in Bayesian econometrics. He was the Herbert H. Goldberger Professor Emeritus at Brown University and a long-time fellow of the Econometric Society.
Born in Eccles, England, Lancaster faced early schooling challenges but later earned a first‑class degree in economics from the University of Liverpool in 1959. With a State Studentship, he studied at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, where he earned a Ph.D. in economics under Michael J. Farrell.
From 1963–64 he worked on his Ph.D. dissertation as a research fellow in Dublin, and in 1964 he joined the University of Birmingham. In 1973 he moved to the University of Hull as a professor and department chair. In 1986 he joined Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he served as department chair and retired in 2006. At Brown he worked in health economics and was part of the Department of Community Health as well as Economics.
Among the students he supervised was Guido Imbens, who later won a Nobel Prize, along with Wilbert van der Klaauw, Orna Intrator, Tieman Woutersen, and Peter Hansen. He was an international fellow at the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice at University College London (Cemmap).
Lancaster married Jane Heawood in 1967; they had two sons, and he had a daughter from a previous marriage.
He died in Providence, Rhode Island, on December 10, 2022, at age 84.
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