1. Alan Bennett Krueger was an American economist who was the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
16 Facts About Alan Krueger
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Alan Krueger served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, nominated by President Barack Obama, from May 2009 to October 2010, when he returned to Princeton.
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Alan Krueger was nominated in 2011 by Obama as chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and served in that office from November 2011 to August 2013.
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Alan Krueger was among the 50 highest ranked economists in the world according to Research Papers in Economics.
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Alan Krueger made innovative use of natural experiments in economics, including influential research in the 1990s that challenged the dominant perspective in economics at the time that minimum wage adversely affected employment.
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Alan Krueger made prominent contributions to research on inequality and the economic effects of education.
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Alan Krueger began teaching at Princeton University in 1987, and successively held the Bendheim Professorship in Economics and Public Affairs and the James Madison Professorship in Political Economy.
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Alan Krueger developed and applied the method of natural experiments to study the effect of education on earnings, the minimum wage on employment, and other issues.
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Alan Krueger compared restaurant jobs in New Jersey, which raised its minimum wage, to restaurant jobs in Pennsylvania, which did not, and found that restaurant employment in New Jersey increased, while it decreased in Pennsylvania.
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Alan Krueger received the Kershaw Prize, Mahalanobis Prize, and IZA Prize, and was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Society of Labor Economists, Econometric Society and American Academy of Political and Social Science.
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Alan Krueger was a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI, an academic institution located in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Alan Krueger published several books on issues related to education, labor markets and income distribution.
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Alan Krueger was known for his work on the Environmental Kuznets curve.
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Alan Krueger was married to Lisa Simon and had two children.
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Alan Krueger was found dead at his home in Princeton on March 16,2019.
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Alan Krueger's family stated the cause of death was suicide.