Halbert White
Halbert Lynn White Jr. (November 19, 1950 – March 31, 2012) was the Chancellor’s Associates Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Education and career 
White, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, graduated salutatorian from Southwest High School in 1968. He went on to study at Princeton University, receiving his BA in economics in 1972. He earned his PhD in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, under the supervision of Jerry A. Hausman and Robert Solow. White spent his first years as an assistant professor in the University of Rochester before moving to University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 1979. He remained at UCSD until his untimely death from cancer. Research 
White was well known in the field of econometrics for his 1980 paper on robust standard errors (which is among the most-cited paper in economics since 1970), and for the heteroscedasticity-consistent estimator and the test for heteroskedasticity that are named after him. A 1982 paper by White contributed strongly to the development of quasi-maximum likelihood estimation. He also contributed to numerous other areas such as neural networks and medicine. In 1999, White co-founded an economic consulting firm, Bates White, which is based in Washington, D.C..

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Faculty profile at the University of California, San Diego's website

1950 births
2012 deaths
Econometricians
Economists from California
University of California, San Diego faculty
Princeton University alumni
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
Place of birth missing
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Fellows of the Econometric Society
University of Rochester faculty
Mathematical statisticians
People from Kansas City, Missouri
Machine learning researchers