Professor David Card
Professor of Economics, Director of the Center for Labor Economics and Director of the Econometrics Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
Professional career and research topics
David Card graduated in 1978 with a Bachelor’s Degree in economics from Queen’s University in Kingston (Ontario, Canada) and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University (New Jersey) in 1983. Currently, he is Class of 1950 Professor of Economics, Director of the Center for Labor Economics and Director of the Econometrics Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley (USA).
In 2021, Card was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his empirical contributions to labor economics. In 2022, the Faculty of Economics at the Ruhr University Bochum, together with the RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Professor Card was appointed an IAB Research Fellow in 2012.
His research interests include unemployment; education; minimum wages; strikes and collective bargaining; education; reform of pension and social systems; evaluation of social programmes and immigration.
David Card has published his research in numerous major journals, such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Review of Economics and Statistics.