About David Card

Economics

David Card is the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests include wage inequality, immigration, wages, education, anti-poverty programs, and health insurance.

He co-authored the 1995 book Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage (Princeton University Press) and coedited The Handbook of Labor Economics (1999 and 2011 editions), Seeking a Premier Economy: The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms (University of Chicago Press, 2004), and Small Differences that Matter: Labor Markets and Income Maintenance in Canada and the United States (University of Chicago Press, 1993). He has also published over 100 journal articles and book chapters. Card was co-editor of Econometrica from 1991 to 1995 and co-editor of the American Economic Review from 2002 to 2005. He taught at Princeton University from 1983 to 1996, and has held visiting appointments at Columbia University and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

In 1992 Card was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society, and in 1998 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1995 he received the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Prize, which is awarded every other year to the economist under 40 whose work is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the field. He was a corecipient of the IZA Labor Economics Award in 2006, and was awarded the Frisch Medal by the Econometric Society in 2007. In 2015, he received the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award for his contributions to evidence-based economic policy. In 2021, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

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