Overview
Justin L. Tobias is a Bayesian econometrician (Purdue University), working in microeconometrics, semiparametric and treatment-effect models, and returns-to-schooling / labour applications. He is a co-author (with Koop and Poirier) of the textbook Bayesian Econometric Methods.
Key Contributions / Features
- Bayesian semiparametrics in systems (Koop-Poirier-Tobias 2003): smoothness-prior nonparametric components in SUR / simultaneous-equations models, with a returns-to-schooling application.
- BMOM semiparametric regression (Zellner-Tobias-Ryu 1999): Bayesian Method of Moments with series-expansion regression functions.
- Bayesian Econometric Methods (Cambridge University Press, 2007; with Koop and Poirier): a problem-based graduate text.
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