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David Card

Class of 1950 Professor of Economics

FieldsLabor economics
Current Status
Teaching
PhD
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1983
Research InterestsWelfare reform; Immigration; Effects of Medicaid program; Pension incentives and retirement; Labor supply; Education; Minimum wages; Strikes and collective bargaining; Evaluation of social programs; Unemployment; Wage rigidity

Office631B Evans
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(510) 642-5222

About David Card

David Card is the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley,?and Director of the Center for Labor Economics and the Econometric Lab. Before joining?Berkeley he taught at University of Chicago in 1982‐83 and Princeton University from 1983 to?1996. He has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, Harvard University, UCLA, and?the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. From 2012 to 2017 he was Director?of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Card’s research?interests include wage determination, education, inequality, immigration, and gender‐related?issues. He co‐authored the 1995 book Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the?Minimum Wage, co‐edited eight additional titles, and has published over 100 journal articles?and book chapters. In 1995, he received the American Economic Association's John Bates Clark?Prize, which is awarded to the economist under 40 whose work is judged to have made the?most significant contribution to the field. He was President of the AEA in 2021 and co‐recipient?of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2021.
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