David Card

David Card
Card in 2021
Born1956 (age 67–68)
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Nationality
  • Canadian
  • American
[3]
EducationQueen's University at Kingston (BA)
Princeton University (MA, PhD)
Academic career
FieldLabour economics
Institutions
Doctoral
advisor		Orley Ashenfelter[1]
Doctoral
students		Thomas Lemieux
Phillip B. Levine
Christoph M. Schmidt
Michael Greenstone
Jesse Rothstein
Philip Oreopoulos
David Lee
Janet Currie
Enrico Moretti
Heather Royer
Elizabeth Cascio
Ethan G. Lewis
Nicole Maestas
AwardsJohn Bates Clark Medal (1995)
IZA Labor Economics Award (2006)[2]
Frisch Medal (2008)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2014)
Jacob Mincer Award (2019)
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2021)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

David Edward Card (born 1956) is a Canadian-American[4] labour economist and the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been since 1997. He was awarded half of the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirical contributions to labour economics", with Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens jointly awarded the other half.[5][6]

  1. ^ "David Card". Edubilla.com.
  2. ^ Jain, C. "Awards". David Card - Berkeley.
  3. ^ Card, David. "Curriculum Vita - David Card" (PDF). Retrieved October 17, 2021.
  4. ^ Bailey, Ian (October 12, 2021). "Canadian economist David Card's research on minimum wage wins Nobel Prize". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved October 17, 2021. Prof. Card remains a Canadian citizen. His family still lives on the farm where he grew up.
  5. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on October 11, 2021. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
  6. ^ "Canadian-born David Card among 3 winners of Nobel in economics". CBC News. The Associated Press. October 11, 2021. Retrieved October 11, 2021.