Alan B. Krueger

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Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University, 1987. Interests: labor economics, industrial relations, social insurance.

Biographical Sketch

His primary research and teaching interests are in the general areas of labor economics, industrial relations, and social insurance. His current research projects include an examination of disability and the work force; a study of the relationship between school quality and labor market success; a study of the U.S. employment miracle; and an analysis of the impact of technological change on the labor market. He served as chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor, 1994-1995. He has also been named a Sloan fellow, an NBER Olin fellow, and was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society. He was awarded the Kershaw Prize by the Association for Public Policy and Management in 1997. He is also the editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

Recent Activities

Alan Krueger continued as Director of Princetons
Survey Research Center as well as the Industrial
Relations Section. He served as the Chief Economist of
the National Council on Economic Education and as a
member of the Executive Committee of the American
Economic Association, and he served on the Boards of
Directors of the Russell Sage Foundation and the
American Institutes for Research. He writes a monthly
column on economics for the New York Times called
The Economic Scene. Krueger was also a Research
Fellow, IZA, in Bonn, Germany. Krueger is the editor
of the Journal of Economic Perspectives and a co-editor of
the Journal of the European Economic Association; he is
also on the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science.
Kruegers primary research and teaching interests are in
the general areas of labor economics, education, industrial
relations, economics of terrorism, and social insurance.

Recent Publications

Krueger, A.B. The Digital Divide in Educating African-
American Students and Workers. In Education and
Training for the Black Worker in the 21st Century, edited by
C. Conrad, and M. Simms. Washington, DC: Center for
Political and Economic Studies. Forthcoming.

Krueger, A.B. Inequality, Too Much of a Good Thing. MIT
Press. Forthcoming.

Krueger, A.B. Introduction. In The Wealth of Nations,
edited by A. Smith. New York: Bantam Classics. Forthcoming.

Krueger, A.B. Economic Considerations and Class Size.
Economic Journal. Forthcoming.

Krueger, A.B. Do Markets Respond More to More Reliable
Labor Market Data? A Test of Market Rationality. Journal
of the European Economic Association. Forthcoming.

Krueger, A.B. An Economists View of Class Size Research.
In How Small Classes Help Teachers Do Their Best. U.S.
Department of Education and Temple University.
Forthcoming.

Krueger, A.B., and Maleckova, J. Education, Poverty,
Political Violence and Terrorism: Is There a Causal
Connection? Journal of Economic Perspectives. Forthcoming.

Krueger, A.B., and Mas, A. Strikes, Scabs and Tread
Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective
Bridgestone/Firestone Tires. Journal of Political Economy.
Forthcoming.

Krueger, A.B., and Meyer, B. Labor Supply Effects of Social
Insurance. In Handbook of Public Economics, edited by A.
Auerbach, and M. Feldstein. Forthcoming.

Krueger, A.B., and Zhu, P.P. Another Look at the New York
City Voucher Experiment. American Behavioral Scientist.
Forthcoming.

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