Lawrence C. Marsh

Lawrence C. Marsh is professor emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame (http://sites.nd.edu/lawrence-c-marsh/home/). He taught graduate and undergraduate economics at Notre Dame for 30 years beginning in 1975. In 1990 he cofounded the Midwest Econometrics Group, which he directed for 15 years (http://www.nd.edu/~meg).

Professor Marsh served as Director of Notre Dame’s Ph.D. program in economics for 13 years. He served in 2010 as visiting professor of econometrics and statistics in the MBA program at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and in 2016-2017 at Avila University in statistics and research methods in psychology.

After serving in the U.S. Army in Vietnam (https://www.slideshare.net/lmarsh/ usarmy-vietnam-1969-and-1970), he returned home to take a job with Bendix Corporation’s Aerospace Division as subcontract administrator and contract personnel administrator on the Apollo Moon Landings Mission, the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) and a number of classified military projects.

He worked at the internet advertising company Adknowledge, Inc. where he served as the head of analytics for banner targeting and as “statistical design strategist” in devising algorithms that send billions of banner ads to websites all over the internet.

He has contributed to hundreds of publications including articles in the Journal of Econometrics, Marketing Science, Statistics in Medicine and many other professional journals as well as numerous newspaper columns, book chapters and books. He served as an independent Midwest Voices columnist for the Kansas City Star online edition.

In teaching he won the James A. Burns award for excellence in graduate teaching in 1990-1991 and was an O’Malley Award Nominee for undergraduate teaching in 1995-1996. In 2002-2003 he was selected as a Kaneb Faculty Teaching Fellow for excellence in teaching.

He has served on 80 Ph.D. dissertation committees and has given several thousand lectures in graduate and undergraduate statistics, econometrics, mathematical economics, microeconomic theory and research methods in psychology. In quasi-retirement he spends his time writing and editing a variety of articles, books and newspaper columns.