Alan Krueger

Alan Krueger
27th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers
In office November 7, 2011 – August 2, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Austan Goolsbee
Succeeded by	Jason Furman
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy
In office May 7, 2009 – October 16, 2010
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Phillip Swagel
Succeeded by	Janice Eberly
Personal details
Born	Alan Bennett Krueger (1960-09-17)September 17, 1960 Livingston, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	March 16, 2019(2019-03-16) (aged 58) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Lisa Simon
Children	2
Education	Cornell University (BS) Harvard University (MA, PhD)
Academic career
Field	Labor economics Macroeconomics Public finance
Institutions	Princeton University U.S. Department of Labor
Doctoral advisor	Lawrence Summers[1] Richard B. Freeman[1]
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Alan Bennett Krueger (September 17, 1960 – March 16, 2019) was an American economist who was the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, nominated by President Barack Obama, from May 2009 to October 2010, when he returned to Princeton. He was nominated in 2011 by Obama as chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and served in that office from November 2011 to August 2013.^[2]

He was among the 50 highest ranked economists in the world according to Research Papers in Economics. He made innovative use of natural experiments in economics, including influential research in the 1990s that challenged the dominant perspective in economics at the time that minimum wage adversely affected employment. He also made prominent contributions to research on inequality and the economic effects of education.