Anthony Lancaster (FAC)

Anthony Lancaster, of Providence; Dec. 10. He taught economics at Brown and served as department chair from 1999 to 2002. He received his BA from Liverpool University in 1959 and his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1964. He taught at the University of Birmingham, where he was the thesis advisor for noted British statistician Andrew Chesher, and at the University of Hull before joining the Brown faculty in 1986. He was a visiting professor in the economics department at Harvard University in 1992. He was instrumental in establishing the field of econometrics at Brown through teaching and advising. He arrived at Brown with two of his graduate students from Hull, one of whom was Guido Imbens, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2021. He published papers in microeconometrics in the major economics and statistics journals. His publications also included an influential monograph, The Econometric Analysis of Transition Data (1990). Later in his career he wrote a textbook, Modern Bayesian Econometrics (2003). He was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1991. He is survived by his wife, Jane Heawood Lancaster ’93 AM, ’98 PhD; a daughter; two sons; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.