Badi Baltagi

Badi Baltagi

Distinguished Professor of Economics, Syracuse University

Badi H. Baltagi is distinguished Professor of Economics, and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Research, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University since 2005. He was George Summey, Jr. Professor of Liberal Arts, at Texas A&M University, 1993-2005. Professor Baltagi is also part-time chair at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. He is the author of several books including: Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 5th edition (2013, Wiley); Econometrics, 5th edition (2011, Springer), and editor of A Companion to Theoretical Econometrics (2001, Blackwell) and the Oxford Handbook of Panel Data (2015, Oxford University Press). He is also author or co-author of over 200 publications, all in leading economics journals. Professor Baltagi is editor of Economics Letters, and was also editor of Empirical Economics, (1999-2018) and the replication editor for the Journal of Applied Econometrics (2003-2018). He is a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics as well as Econometric Reviews and a recipient of the Multa and Plura Scripsit Awards from Econometric Theory. He is a Founding Member, fellow and ex-director of the International Association for Applied Econometrics. He is also the 2018 winner of the Kuwait Prize for Economics and Social Sciences.

Areas of Interest:

  • International Economics
  • Econometrics
  • Productivity
  • Microeconometrics

Education:

  • Ph.D., Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1979
  • M.S., Statistics, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1975
  • B.A., Statistics, American University of Beirut, 1974

Experience:

  • Distinguished Professor of Economics, Syracuse University, 2005-present.
  • Part-time Chair in Economics, University of Leicester, 2004-present.
  • George Summey Jr., Professor of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University, 1993-2005.

Latest Publications:

  • “Growth empirics: A Bayesian semiparametric model with random coefficients for a panel of OECD countries,” with Georges Bresson and Jean-Michel Etienne, Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 41, (April, 2020), 217-253. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0731-905320200000041007
  • “Structural Changes in Heterogeneous Panels with Endogenous Regressors,” with Qu Feng and Chihwa Kao, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 34, Issue 6, (September/October 2019), 883-892. https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.2712
  • “The Effect of Education on Health: Evidence from the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey,” with Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Haci M. Karatas, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 77, (July, 2019), 205-221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2019.05.001
 
Spatial Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers in Turkey

Areas of Interest: International Economics Econometrics Productivity Microeconometrics Education: Ph.D., Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1979 M.S., Statistics, Carnegie-Mellon... Read More

April, 2022

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How Different Are the Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers? Evidence from Turkey

Areas of Interest: International Economics Econometrics Productivity Microeconometrics Education: Ph.D., Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1979 M.S., Statistics, Carnegie-Mellon... Read More

May, 2013

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The Turkish Wage Curve: Evidence from the Household Labor Force Survey

Areas of Interest: International Economics Econometrics Productivity Microeconometrics Education: Ph.D., Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1979 M.S., Statistics, Carnegie-Mellon... Read More

October, 2011

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