Roger Koenker, Date of Birth

Roger Koenker

American econometrician

Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1947

Profession: economist, statistician, econometrician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Roger William Koenker (born February 21, 1947) is an American econometrician and is mostly known for his contributions to quantile regression.
He is a Professor of Economics and Statistics at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC).He finished his degree at Grinnell College in 1969 and obtained his Ph.
D.
in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1974.
In the same year, he was employed as an assistant professor at UIUC.
By 1976, he left the university to work as part of the technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
He came back to UIUC in 1983 to teach as a William B.
McKinley Professor of Economics and Statistics.