

Thomas Stoker
Gordon Y Billard Professor in Management and Economics, Emeritus and Professor of Applied Economics, Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management
Thomas M. Stoker is the Gordon Y Billard Professor in Management and Economics, Emeritus and a Professor of Applied Economics, Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Stoker is a leading researcher in economic modeling, econometric methodology, and empirical analysis of economic relationships. His specialties include aggregation in economics—which connect individual decisions with overall economic aggregates—and semiparametric econometrics—which refer to flexible methods of estimation for economic models. Stoker has done applications to a diverse range of empirical problems in economics, including consumer demand, energy demand and supply, housing wealth and consumption, and the study of unemployment. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
Stoker holds a BS in mathematics from the University of Arizona and an MS and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.
Recent work by Thomas Stoker
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Law of the land: Ethnic patronage in Kenya’s slums
Slum tenants face higher rents and lower investments when their landlord and chief share ethnicity, while gaining when their chief is a co-ethnic
Published 11.05.18