David Card

Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Labor Economics at Berkeley, he is also Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before joining Berkeley’s faculty of economics in 1997, he taught at the University of Chicago and Princeton University. He served as co-editor of Econometrica and the American Economic Review. His research interests include health policy, immigration, welfare reform, education, and wage determination. In 1995 he was awarded the American Economic Association's John Bates Clark prize for the most influential economist under the age of forty. In 2005 he received the IZA Prize in Labor Economics. His publications include Seeking a Premier Economy, University Chicago Press for NBER (2004); Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, Princeton University Press (1995).