Alan B. Krueger Bendheim Professor of Economics and
Public Affairs at
Princeton University
Alan B. Krueger Bendheim Professor of Economics and
Public Affairs at
Princeton University
He has published widely on the economics of education, terrorism,
labor demand,
income distribution, social insurance, labor market regulation, and
environmental economics. Since 1987 he has held a joint appointment in the
Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He
is the founding Director of the Princeton University Survey Research
Center and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic
Research and of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). He is the
author of What Makes A Terrorist: Economics and the Roots
of Terrorism and Education Matters: A Selection of
Essays on
Education, and co-author of Myth and Measurement: The
New
Economics of the Minimum Wage, and
co-author Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital
Policies?
He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation and
of the Board of Directors of the American Institutes for Research. He is a
member of the editorial board of Science, and was editor of the
Journal of
Economic Perspectives from 1996 to 2002 and co-editor of the
Journal of
the European Economic Assocaition from 2003-05. In 1994-95 he served
as
Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. He is currently a member
of the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association
and serves
as chief economist for the National Council on Economic Education. He was
named a Sloan Fellow in Economics in 1992 and an NBER Olin Fellow in
1989-90. He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1996, a
fellow of the Society of Labor Economists in 2005 and a member of the
Executive Committee of the American Economic Association in 2004. He
was awarded the
Kershaw Prize by the Association for Public Policy and
Management in 1997 (for distinguished contributions to public policy
analysis by someone under the age of 40) and Mahalanobis Memorial Medal by
the Indian Econometric Society in 2001. In 2002 he was elected a fellow
of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and in 2003 he was elected a
fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He
was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics with David Card in
2006. From
March 2000 to March 2006 he was a regular contributor to the "Economic
Scene" column in the New York Times. He received a B.S. degree
(with
honors) from Cornell University's School of Industrial & Labor Relations,
an A.M. in Economics from Harvard University in 1985, and a Ph.D. in
Economics from Harvard University in 1987.
E-mail: akrueger@princeton.edu
What
Makes a
Terrorist? Photos
Economic Scene
columns from the New York Times
Curriculum
Vitae with links
Printable
CV
Working Papers
Congressional Testimony
References from President's
Lecture
on
"Misunderestimating
Terrorism"
Press
PDII
Alan Krueger and
David Card win the 2006 IZA Prize in Labor Economics