Full name: David Card
Education: B.A (Queen’s University)
Ph.D. in Economics (Princeton University)
Position: Professor of Economics at University of California, Berkeley
Director, Center for Labor Economics (CLE)
Research Associate, NBER
Field: Labor economics, immigration, wages, education, and gender-and race-related differences in the labor market
Top 3 Papers:
Minimum wages and employment: A case study of the fast food industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
Estimating the return to schooling: Progress on some persistent econometric problems
Podcast: Economics, Sexism, Data (Planet Money)
Presentation: Clemens Lecture: The Economics of Immigration (College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University)
The Role of Firms in the Labor Market (Paris School of Economics)
Famous Students: Thomas Lemieux, Philip Oreopoulos, Jesse Rothstein
Awards: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2021)
Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) University of Guelph (2015)
Frisch Medal, 2007 (for 2005 paper in Econometrica with D. Hyslop)
Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) Queen’s University (1999)
John Bates Clark Prize, American Economic Assoc. (1995)
Top books: Wages, School Quality, and Employment Demand
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