Alan B. Krueger (decd)

Research Fellow

Princeton University

We are deeply sorry that Alan Krueger passed away on March 16, 2019 at age 59.

Until his death he was the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He received a B.S. degree (with honors) from Cornell University's School of Industrial & Labor Relations in 1983, an A.M. in Economics from Harvard University in 1985, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1987.

He published widely on the economics of education, terrorism, unemployment, labor demand, income distribution, social insurance, labor market regulation and environmental economics. Since 1987 he held a joint appointment in the Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He was the founding Director of the Princeton University Survey Research Center, and was 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 Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies?

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Russell Sage Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and the American Institutes for Research, as well as a member of the editorial board of Science (2001-09), editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives (1996-2002) and co-editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association (2003-05).

Professor Krueger served as Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers from November 2011 until August 2013. Previous government positions include Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (2009-10) and Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor (1994-95).

In November 2006 he was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics jointly with David Card.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11672
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (S), S324-S348
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8888
published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2015, 29 (2), 3–24
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8512
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (2), 258 - 264
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7957
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8 (1), 142-179
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5505
published in: Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (S1, Part 2), S173–S202
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5450
published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2011, 42 (1), 1-81
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3775
published as "Evidence on the Incidence of Wage Posting, Wage Bargaining, and On-the-Job Search" in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 4(4), 56-67
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3667
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (3-4), 298-307
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