▪️Full name: Alan Bennett Krueger (1960-2019)
🏫Education:
B.Sc. in Industrial & Labor Relations (Cornell University)
A.M. in Economics (Harvard University)
Ph.D. in Economics (Harvard University)
▪️Position:
Bendheim Professor of Economics & Public Policy, Department of Economics and Woodrow
Wilson School, Princeton University (1992-2019)
Research Associate, NBER (1992-2019)
Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Labor (1994-1995)
Member of the board of directors, MacArthur Foundation (2001-2009)
Member of the executive committee of the American Economic Association (2005-2007)
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (2009-2010)
Co-Editor, Journal of the European Economic Association (2003-2005)
Chief economist for the National Council on Economic Education (2003 to 2009)
▪️Field: Labor economics, Macroeconomics, Public finance, Political Economy
📝Top 3 Papers:
The political economy of the rent-seeking society (The American economic review)
Economic growth and the environment (The quarterly journal of economics)
Environmental impacts of a North American free trade agreement (NBER)
🎧Podcast:
Professor Alan Krueger on ‘Rockonomics’ (Princeton Alumni Weekly Podcast)
📽Presentation:
Economy of the Future (Institute of Emerging Issues)
Alan Krueger, Discusses his Research on Uber (Cornell ILR)
👩🎓Famous Students:
Marie Connolly (the University of Quebec in Montreal)
Phillip Levine (Wellesley College)
Annamaria Lusardi (George Washington University)
Alexandre Mas (Princeton University)
🏆Honors & Awards:
Sloan Fellow in Economics (1992)
Fellow of the Econometric Society (1996)
Kershaw Prize, Association for Public Policy and Management (1997)
Mahalanobis Memorial Medal, the Indian Econometric Society (2001)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)
Fellow of the Society of Labor Economics (2005)
IZA Price in Labor Economics, Institute of Labor Economics (2006)
📚Top Books:
Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage (Princeton University Press)
Rockonomics: What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics (and Our Future)
What makes a terrorist? (Princeton University Press)
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