Curriculum Vita - David Card
August 2000
Business Address: Department of Economics
549
Evans Hall
University
of California Berkeley,
Berkeley,
CA 94720
Business Phone: 510-642-5222
510-643-7042
(fax)
E-mail:
card@econ.berkeley.edu
Citizenship: Canadian
(U.S. Permanent Resident)
Current Positions: Class of 1950 Professor of
Economics,
University
of California, Berkeley
Faculty
Research Associate,
National
Bureau of Economic Research
Previous Positions: Assistant Professor of Business Economics
Graduate
School of Business
University
of Chicago, 1982-83
Assistant
Professor of Economics
Princeton
University, 1983-87
Professor
of Economics
Princeton
University, 1987-1997
Visiting Professor of Economics
Columbia University, 1990-91
Fellow,
Center for Advanced Study in
Behavioral
Sciences, 1996-97
Editorial Positions: Co-editor Econometrica,
1993-97
Associate
Editor
Journal
of Labor Economics 1988-92
Education: Queen's
University (Kingston), B.A. 1978
Princeton
University, Ph.D. 1983
Awards and Prizes: John Bates Clark Prize, 1995
L.L.D.
(Honorary) Queens University (Kingston), 1999
Fellow,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998.
Douglas
Purvis Prize (for an article or book on Economics
and
Public Policy in Canada), 1994.
Fellow of the Econometric
Society, 1992.
Manufacturers
Hanover Preceptorship in
Economics,
1983-88.
Junior
Faculty Teaching Award, Department of
Economics,
Princeton University, 1986.
Prince
of Wales Prize (highest undergraduate
standing),
Queen's University, 1978.
Advisory Boards: AEA
Representative to United States Census
Advisory Committee, 1991-96
Statistics Canada Advisory
Committee on Labour
Statistics, 1990-
Advisory Council,
Inter-University
Consortium
for Political and Social Research, 1994-96.
Joint
Center for Poverty Research, 1997-99
National
Research Council Institute of Medicine Board on
Children,
Youth and Families, 1998-
National
Institute of Health, Social Sciences, Nursing,
Epidemiology,
and Methods (SNEM) Review Panel, 1998-
Florida
Opportunity Scholarship Research Project Advisory
Board,
1999-
Books:
(co-edited with Rebecca M.. Blank) Finding Work: Jobs and Welfare Reform. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000.
(co-edited with Orley Ashenfelter) Handbook of Labor Economics (3
volumes). Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1999.
(co-authored with Alan B. Krueger) Myth and Measurement: The New Economics
of the Minimum Wage. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1995.
(co-edited with Richard B. Freeman). Small Differences that Matter: Labor
Markets and Income Maintenance in Canada and the United States. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Journal Articles and Chapters in Books:
(with Thomas Lemieux).
"Education, Earnings, and the Canadian G.I. Bill." Canadian Journal of Economics,
forthcoming 2001.
(with Thomas Lemieux). Can
Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis. Quarterly Journal of Economics,
forthcoming 2001.
"Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows and
the Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration." Journal of Labor Economics,
forthcoming January 2001.
"The Effect of Unions on Wage Inequality
in the U.S. Labor Market." Industrial
and Labor Relations Review forthcoming 2001.
(with Thomas Lemieux). Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the
Post-War Period: What Went Wrong in the 1970s? Forthcoming in Jonathan Gruber, editor, An Economic Analysis
of Risky Behavior Among Youth.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2000.
(with Alan Krueger). A Re-analysis of the Effect of the New
Jersey Minimum Wage with Representative Payroll Data. American Economic Review, forthcoming
2000.
(with John E. DiNardo). Do Immigrant Inflows Lead to Native
Outflows? American Economic Review,
90 (May 2000).
(with Rebecca M. Blank and Philip K.
Robins). Financial Incentives for
Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families. In Rebecca M.. Blank and David Card,
editors, Finding Work: Jobs and Welfare Reform. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000.
(with Phillip Levine). "Extended Benefits and the Duration of
UI Spells: Evidence from the New Jersey Extended Benefit Program." Journal
of Public Economics, 78 (October 2000).
(with John E. DiNardo and Eugena Estes). "The More Things Change: Immigrants and
the Children of Immigrants in the 1940s, the 1970s, and the 1990s." In George J. Borjas, editor, Issues in
the Economics of Immigration.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
"The Causal Effect of Education on
Earnings". In Orley Ashenfelter
and David Card, editors, Handbook of Labor Economics Volume 3. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1999.
(with Francis Kramarz and Thomas Lemieux). "Changes in the Relative Structure of
Wages and Employment: A Comparison of the United States, Canada, and
France." Canadian Journal of Economics, August 1999.
(with Thomas Lemieux). "Adapting to Circumstances: The
Evolution of Work, School, and Living Arrangements Among North American
Youth." In David Blanchflower and
Richard Freeman, editors, Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced
Countries. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1999.
(with Philip Robins). "Do Financial
Incentives Encourage Welfare Recipients to Work? Evidence from a Randomized
Evaluation of the Self-Sufficiency Project". Research in Labor Economics, 1998.
(with Alan Krueger). "School Resources and Student
Outcomes." Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 559 (September 1998).
(with Thomas Lemieux). Recent Trends in the
Economic Status of North American Youth.
Annual Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association
(December 1997).
"Deregulation and Labor Earnings in the
Airline Industry." In James
Peoples, editor, Regulatory Reform and Labor Markets. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1997.
(with W. Craig Riddell). "Unemployment in Canada and the United
States: A Further Analysis".
In B. Curtis Eaton and Richard
Harris, editors, Trade, Technology, and Economics: Essays in Honour of
Richard G. Lipsey. Brookfield MA:
Edward Elgar, 1997.
(with Dean Hyslop). "Does Inflation
'Grease the Wheels of the Labor Market'?"
In Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer, editors, Reducing
Inflation: Motivation and Strategy.
University of Chicago Press, 1997.
(with Alan Krueger). "School Resources and Student Outcomes:
An Overview of the Literature and New Evidence from North and South
Carolina". Journal of Economic
Perspectives, 10 (Fall 1996).
(with Thomas Lemieux). "Wage Dispersion, Returns to Skill, and
Black-White Wage Differentials". Journal
of Econometrics (October 1996).
(with Alan Krueger). "Labor Market
Effects of School Quality: Theory and Evidence".
In Gary Burtless, editor, The Link Between
Schools, Student Achievement, and Adult Success. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1996.
(with Brian McCall). "Is Workers' Compensation Covering
Uninsured Medical Costs? Evidence from the 'Monday Effect'". Industrial and Labor Relations Review
49 (July 1996).
"The Effect of Unions on the Structure
of Wages: A Longitudinal Analysis."
Econometrica 64 (July 1996).
"Earnings, Schooling, and Ability
Revisited." In Solomon Polachek,
editor, Research in Labor Economics, vol. 14. Greenwich Connecticut: JAI Press, 1995.
(with Alan Krueger). "The Economic Return to School Quality:
A Partial Survey." In William
Baumol and William E. Becker, editors, Assessing Educational Practices: The
Contribution of Economics.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1995.
"Using Geographic Variation in College
Proximity to Estimate the Return to Schooling". In L.N. Christofides, E.K. Grant, and R. Swidinsky, editors,
Aspects of Labor Market Behaviour: Essays in Honour of John Vanderkamp. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.
(with Alan Krueger). "Time-Series Minimum Wage Studies: A
Meta-Analysis." American
Economic Review 85 (May 1995).
(with Craig Olson). "Bargaining Power, Strike Durations, and Wage Outcomes: An
Analysis of Strikes in the 1880s."
Journal of Labor Economics 13 (January 1995).
(with Alan Krueger). "Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case
Study of the Fast Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania." American Economic Review 84
(September 1994).
(with Richard Freeman). "Small Differences that Matter: Canada
Versus the United States." In
Richard B. Freeman, editor, Working Under Different Rules. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1994.
(with Thomas Lemieux). "Changing Wage Structure and
Black-White Wage Differentials." American
Economic Review 84 (May 1994).
"Intertemporal Labor Supply: An
Assessment." In Christopher Sims,
editor, Advances in Econometrics, Sixth World Congress. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1994.
(with Phillip Levine). "Unemployment
Insurance Taxes and the Cyclical Properties of Employment and
Unemployment." Journal of
Public Economics 53 (February 1994).
(with Rebecca Blank). "Poverty, Income, and Growth: Are They
Still Connected?" Brookings
Papers on Economic Activity, 2 (Fall) 1993.
(with W. Craig Riddell). "A Comparative Analysis of Unemployment
in the United States and
Canada." In David Card and Richard B. Freeman, editors, Small
Differences that Matter: Labor Markets and Income Maintenance in Canada and the
United States. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1993.
(with Alan Krueger). "Trends in Relative
Black-White Earnings Revisited." American
Economic Review 83 (May 1993).
"Do Minimum Wages Reduce
Employment? A Case Study of California,
1987-89." Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 46 (October 1992).
"Using Regional Variation in Wages to
Measure the Effects of the Federal Minimum Wage." Industrial and Labor
Relations Review, 46 (October 1992).
(with Alan Krueger). "Does School
Quality Matter: Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools
in the United States." Journal
of Political Economy, 100 (February 1992).
(with Alan Krueger). "School Quality and
Black-White Relative Earnings: A Direct Assessment." Quarterly Journal of Economics 107
(February 1992).
(with Rebecca Blank). "Recent Trends in Insured and Uninsured
Unemployment: Is There An Explanation?"
Quarterly Journal of Economics 106 (November 1991).
(with Kristin Butcher). "Immigration and
Wages: Evidence from the 1980s." American
Economic Review 81 (May 1991).
(with Joseph Altonji). "The Effects of Immigration on the
Labor Market Outcomes of Less-Skilled Natives." In John Abowd and Richard B. Freeman, editors., Immigration,
Trade and Labor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
"Minimum Wages and the Teenage Labor
Market: A Case Study of California, 1987-89." Annual Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research
Association (December 1990).
"Labor Supply with a Minimum Hours
Threshold." Carnegie Rochester
Conference on Public Policy 33 (Autumn 1990).
"Strikes and Wages: A Test of An
Asymmetric Information Model." Quarterly Journal of Economics 105
(August 1990).
"Unexpected Inflation, Real Wages, and
Employment Determination in Union Contracts." American Economic Review 80 (September 1990).
"Strikes and Bargaining: A Survey of the
Recent Empirical Literature." American
Economic Review 80 (May 1990).
"The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on
the Miami Labor Market." Industrial
and Labor Relations Review 43 (January 1990).
(with John Abowd). "On the Covariance Structure of Earnings and Hours
Changes." Econometrica 57
(March 1989).
"Longitudinal Analysis of Strike
Activity." Journal of Labor
Economics 6 (April 1988).
(with Daniel Sullivan). "Measuring the Effect of Subsidized
Training Programs on Movements In and Out of Employment." Econometrica 56 (May 1988).
(with John Abowd). "Intertemporal Labor Supply and Long Term Employment
Contracts." American Economic
Review 77 (March 1987).
"Efficient Contracts with Costly
Adjustment: Short Run Employment
Determination for Airline Mechanics."
American Economic Review 76 (December 1986).
"The Impact of Deregulation on the
Employment and Wages of Airline Mechanics." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 39 (July 1986).
(with Orley Ashenfelter). "Why Have Unemployment Rates in Canada
and the United States Diverged?" Economica
53 (Supplement 1986).
"An Empirical Model of Wage Indexation
Provisions in Union Contracts." Journal
of Political Economy 94 (June 1986).
(with Orley Ashenfelter). "Using the Longitudinal Structure of
Earnings to Estimate the Effect of Training Programs." Review of Economics and Statistics, 67
(November 1985).
"Microeconomic Models of Wage
Indexation." Annual Proceedings
of the Industrial Relations Research Association (December 1984).
"Cost of Living Escalators in Major
Union Contracts." Industrial and
Labor Relations Review, 37 (October 1983).
(with Orley Ashenfelter). "Time Series Representations of
Economic Variables and Alternative Models of the Labor Market." Review of Economic Studies, 69
(September 1982).
Unpublished Papers:
(with Orley Ashenfelter). How
Did the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement Affect Faculty Retirement
Rates? UC Berkeley Center for Labor
Economics Working Paper #25, August 2000.
Estimating the Return to Schooling: Progress
on Some Persistent Econometric Problems.
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 7769, June 2000.
(with Philip K. Robins and Charles
Michalopoulos). Measuring Wage Growth
Among Former Welfare Recipients. UC
Berkeley Center for Labor Economics Working Paper No. 20, November 1999.
(with A. Abigail Payne). "School Finance Reform, the
Distribution of School Spending, and the Distribution of SAT Scores." National Bureau of Economic Research Working
Paper 6766, October 1998 (revised August 2000).
(with Philip Robins and Winston Lin). "Would Financial Incentives for Leaving
Welfare Lead Some People to Stay on Welfare Longer? An Experimental Evaluation of 'Entry Effects' in the Self-Sufficiency
Project". National Bureau of
Economic Research Working Paper 6449, March 1998.
(with Alan Krueger). "Labor Market
Effects of School Quality: Theory and Evidence". National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 5450, February
1996.
(with Brian McCall). "When to Start a Fight and When to
Fight Back: Workers' Compensation Liability Denials and Disputes." Unpublished Manuscript, September 1994.
"The Effect of Unions on the Level and
Distribution of Wages: A Longitudinal Analysis." Princeton University Industrial Relations Section Working Paper
Number 287, July 1991, revised March 1995.
"Supply and Demand in the Labor
Market." Princeton University
Industrial Relations Section Working Paper Number 228, November 1987.
(with Orley Ashenfelter). "Using Longitudinal Data to Measure
Minimum Wage Effects." Center for
Labour Economics, London School of Economics Discussion Paper, September 1981.
Published Reviews and Comments:
Comment on Robert A. Moffitt, Demographic
Change and Public Assistance Expenditures.
In Alan Auerbach, editor, Demographic Change and Fiscal Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
The Research Contributions of Thomas
Lemieux. Canadian Journal of
Economics 31 (October 1998): 975-984.
"The Wage Curve: A
Review." Journal of Economic
Literature 33 (June 1995).
(with Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger). Comment on David Neumark and William
Wascher, "Employment Effects of Minimum and Subminimum Wages: Panel Data
on State Minimum Wage Laws". Industrial
and Labor Relations Review 47 (April 1994).
Review of Michael Goldfield's The Decline
of Organized Labor in the United States.
Journal of Economic History 49 (December 1989).
Review of H. Gregg Lewis' Union Relative
Wage Effects: A Survey. Journal
of Economic Literature, 25 (March 1987).
(with Henry Farber). "Comments on Semi-Parametric Estimation
of Employment Duration Models," by Joel Horowitz and George Neumann. Econometric Reviews, (1988).
Comments on "Empirical Tests of Labor
Market Equilibrium: An Evaluation," by J. Heckman and T. MaCurdy. Carnegie
Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 28 (Spring 1988).
Comments on "Macroeconomic Performance and the Disadvantaged," by Lawrence Katz and David Cutler. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Number 2, 1991.