Yair Mundlak

Yair Mundlak (Hebrew: יאיר מונדלק; 1927 - October 20, 2015) was an Israeli-American economist. He was a former professor at the University of Chicago and Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1][2][3]

He is known for an influential 1961 article in the Journal of Farm Economics wherein he introduced a fixed effects estimator to better estimate agricultural productivity.[4] His research would influence research designs in economics, contributing to the popularity of difference-in-differences designs and two-way fixed effects estimators.[4]

He was born in Pinsk, Poland (now Belarus) in 1927.[4] In the lead-up to World War II, Mundlak moved with his family to the area that is today Israel, but was the British Mandate at the time.[4] He attended Kadoorie Agricultural High School in Lower Galilee. He was a soldier in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. After the war, he joined a kibbutz.[4]

Mundlak moved to the United States to study agricultural economics at College of Agriculture at Davis (now University of California-Davis).[4] He earned a BSc in Agricultural Economics at Davis in 1953.[4] He joined University of Berkeley where he graduated with a MS in Statistics in 1956 and a PhD in Agricultural Economics in 1957.[4] After earning his PhD, he joined the faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[4]

Personal life

He was married and had three children.[4]

References

  1. ^ Blaug, Mark, ed. (1999). Who's who in economics (Third ed.). Cheltenham: Elgar. pp. 809–810. ISBN 1-85898-886-1.
  2. ^ Dupont-Kieffer, Ariane; Pirotte, Alain (2011). "The Early Years of Panel Data Econometrics". History of Political Economy. 43 (Suppl 1): 258–282. doi:10.1215/00182702-1158754.
  3. ^ "Yair Mundlak". Agriculture and Applied Engineering. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Bellemare, Marc F.; Millimet, Daniel L. (2025). "Retrospectives: Yair Mundlak and the Fixed Effects Estimator". Journal of Economic Perspectives. 39 (2): 261–274. doi:10.1257/jep.20241406. ISSN 0895-3309.


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