David Card

David Edward Card ( * 1956 in Guelph, Canada ) is a Canadian economist and university professor.

Career, teaching and research

Card studied until 1978 at the Queen 's University, before moving to Princeton University. There he graduated in 1983, Ph.D. Had he taught in parallel from 1982 at the University of Chicago as an assistant professor, he worked in 1983 as an assistant professor at Princeton University. In 1987 he was professor of economics at the university. After ten years he followed in 1997 a professorship at the University of California, Berkeley.

The focus of the work cards are poverty and labor research. This includes the causes and effects of racial segregation and immigration and minimum wages, and health economics.

In 1995 he received the John Bates Clark Medal Card. For the analysis of the importance of school education for the labor market success of 2006, he received together with Alan B. Krueger the IZA Prize in Labor Economics at the Institute for the Study of Labor. Since 2013 it is one of Thomson Reuters due to the number of its citations to favorites to a Nobel Prize (Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ).