Alan Krueger
Alan Bennett Krueger (September 17, 1960 – March 16, 2019) 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. He 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. He 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.
Alan Krueger | |
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| 27th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers | |
| In office November 7, 2011 – August 2, 2013 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Austan Goolsbee |
| Succeeded by | Jason Furman |
| Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy | |
| In office May 7, 2009 – October 16, 2010 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Phillip Swagel |
| Succeeded by | Janice Eberly |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alan Bennett Krueger September 17, 1960 Livingston, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | March 16, 2019 (aged 58) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Lisa Simon |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Cornell University (BS) Harvard University (MA, PhD) |
| Academic career | |
| Institutions | Princeton University U.S. Department of Labor |
| Field | Labor economics Macroeconomics Public finance |
| Doctoral advisor | Lawrence Summers Richard B. Freeman |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
He was among the 50 highest ranked economists in the world according to Research Papers in Economics. He 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. He also made prominent contributions to research on inequality and the economic effects of education.