David Card

David Card
Card in 2021
Born1956 (age 6869)
Nationality
  • Canadian
  • American
Academic background
EducationQueen's University at Kingston (BA)
Princeton University (MA, PhD)
Doctoral advisorOrley Ashenfelter
Academic work
DisciplineLabour economics
Institutions
Doctoral studentsThomas 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)
Frisch Medal (2008)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2014)
Jacob Mincer Award (2019)
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2021)
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David Edward Card (born 1956) is a Canadian-American 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.