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David Card
Economist

David Card

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Using natural experiments to study wages, immigration and employment.

Minimum-wage research · Economics prize

Born
1956
Birthplace
Guelph

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David Card

David Card is a Canadian-American labour economist whose empirical research tested influential assumptions about labour markets.

Early life

Education

Grew up in Ontario, graduated from Queen’s University and earned a Princeton doctorate in 1983.

Career

  1. 1983–1997

    Princeton

    Served on the economics faculty.

  2. 1997

    Berkeley

    Joined the University of California, Berkeley.

Selected work

Minimum-wage research

Studied a New Jersey wage increase with Alan Krueger.

Economics prize

Received half of the Nobel memorial prize for labour-economics research.

Beyond work

Editing

Has served as an editor of major economics journals.

Sources & photo creditBiography and career ↗Biographical references ↗Additional biographical source ↗

Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.

Photo: Roxanne Makasdjian and Alan Toth for the University of California, Berkeley. CC BY 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.