Alan B. Krueger
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Alan B. Krueger was a towering figure in labor economics whose work reshaped our understanding of education, inequality, and the minimum wage. His landmark 1994 study with David Card, which found that a minimum wage increase in New Jersey did not reduce employment, fundamentally challenged classical economic theory and sparked decades of debate. Krueger also made seminal contributions to the economics of education, co-authoring the influential "Does School Quality Matter?" and developing the "Krueger Index" of school quality. His research on the returns to education, the impact of school resources, and the determinants of earnings inequality has been cited over 100,000 times. As Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Obama, he helped shape policies on job training and income inequality. Krueger’s ability to combine rigorous econometrics with pressing policy questions—from the minimum wage to the gig economy—made him one of the most cited and respected economists of his generation. His tragic death in 2019 cut short a career that had already transformed labor economics.
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