Yehuda Grunfeld (also Grünfeld;[1] Hebrew: יהודה גרינפלד; March 11, 1930 – July 16, 1960) was an econometrician in the late 1950s.
[2] On July 16, 1960,[3]Grunfelddrowned[1] while rescuing his son from an undertow off the coast of Israel.
[3] From 1957–58, Grunfeld was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago (UChicago).
[3] His 1958 doctoral thesis at UChicago is The Determinants of Corporate Investment; as of 2010, its appendix contained "one of the most widely used data sets in all of econometrics.
By 1960, he was a lecturer of economics and statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,[3] and scheduled to become a professor at UChicago at the end of July.