David Edward Card is a Canadian labor economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Card earned his B.A. degree from Queen's University in 1978 and his Ph.D. degree in Economics in 1983 from Princeton University.
From 1988 to 1992, Card was Associate Editor of the Journal of Labor Economics and from 1993 to 1997, he was co-editor of Econometrica. He won the John Bates Clark Medal in 1995. He will give the 2009 Richard T. Ely ...
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David Edward Card is a Canadian labor economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Card earned his B.A. degree from Queen's University in 1978 and his Ph.D. degree in Economics in 1983 from Princeton University.
From 1988 to 1992, Card was Associate Editor of the Journal of Labor Economics and from 1993 to 1997, he was co-editor of Econometrica. He won the John Bates Clark Medal in 1995. He will give the 2009 Richard T. Ely Lecture of the American Economic Association in San Francisco.
In the early 1990s, Card received much attention for his finding, together with his then Princeton University colleague Alan B. Krueger that, contrary to widely accepted beliefs among economists, the minimum wage increase in New Jersey did not result in job reduction of fast food companies in that state. While this claim has been disputed by many (see minimum wage for discussion), a few economists, including Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, accept Card and Krueger's findings ...
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