Hirsh Zvi Griliches was a Lithuanian-born economist at Harvard University.
10 Facts About Zvi Griliches
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Zvi Griliches was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, in an assimilated Jewish family that spoke Russian at home.
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Zvi Griliches published important works on econometrics, including distributed lags and aggregation.
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Zvi Griliches was particularly interested in the measurements of hidden variables.
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Zvi Griliches served as president of the Econometric Society in 1975 and as president of the American Economic Association in 1993.
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Zvi Griliches served on the Stigler Commission in 1961 and the Boskin Commission in 1996, both of which were convened by the United States Senate to evaluate the measurement of inflation.
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In 1965, Zvi Griliches won the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal.
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Zvi Griliches was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1965 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.
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Zvi Griliches was elected Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association.
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Zvi Griliches died on November 4,1999, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.