Nicholas M. Kiefer (born February 28, 1951) is an Economics professor at Cornell University. He received a fellowship award from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1986 for his "past achievements and ... promise of future accomplishments".^[1]

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Kiefer is the author of graduate textbooks and monographs in econometrics, including textbooks on job-search econometrics (Empirical Labor Economics: The Search Approach with T. J. Devine and Search Models and Applied Labor Economics with G.R. Neumann). He wrote a textbook on the micro-econometrics of agents solving dynamic problems (Economic Modeling and Inference with B. J. Christensen).