R. Carter Hill has a BA degree in Economics from Duke University, a MA degree in Economics from Western Illinois University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He taught at the University of Georgia from 1975 to 1985 and has been at Louisiana State University since 1985. He is an Emeritus Professor of Econometrics. He has published over 70 scholarly papers. He is coauthor of several textbooks, including Principles of Econometrics, 5e (Wiley, 2018). He is a Senior Co-editor of the research annual Advances in Econometrics (Emerald Press).