Dear NBER Colleagues -
I am very sorry to share the news that long-time NBER Research Associate
Alan Krueger passed away over the weekend. Alan was the James Madison
Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University and a Research
Associate in four NBER programs: Children, Education, Labor Studies,
and Public Economics.
Alan was an outstanding applied economist. He made path-breaking
contributions to the study of wage differentials, the minimum wage, the
returns to education, the links between economic activity and
environmental quality, time use, the changing nature of employment
relationships, the economic analysis of terrorism, and many other
topics. He combined a constant focus on important issues with
remarkable creativity in empirical methodology.
Alan was also a dedicated public servant who held several important
policy-making roles. He chaired the Council of Economic Advisers
(2011-13), served as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief
Economist of the U.S. Treasury Department (2009-10), and was Chief
Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor (1994-95).
Alan received his undergraduate degree from Cornell's School of
Industrial Relations, and his Ph.D. from Harvard. He joined the
Princeton faculty as an assistant professor in 1987 and remained at
Princeton throughout his career. He held a joint appointment in the
Economics Department and the Woodrow Wilson School, and directed
Princeton's Survey Research Center. Alan served as Vice-President of
the American Economic Association in 2017, and edited the Journal of
Economic Perspectives between 1996 and 2002.
Alan was an active participant in many NBER activities, the founding
director of the Program on Children, and a research affiliate for more
than three decades. He will be deeply missed.
Jim Poterba
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Received on Mon Mar 18 2019 - 10:40:13 EDT
