David Card

David Card
David Card in 2006
Born	1956 (age 60–61)
Nationality	Canada
Institution	University of California, Berkeley
Field	Labour economics
Alma mater	Princeton University
Doctoral advisor	Orley Ashenfelter
Doctoral students	Thomas Lemieux Philip Oreopoulos Christoph M. Schmidt Enrico Moretti Jesse Rothstein
Awards	John Bates Clark Medal (1995) Frisch Medal (2008) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2014)
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David Edward Card (born 1956) is a Canadian labour economist and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Card earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University in 1978 and his Ph.D. degree in Economics in 1983 from Princeton University, under supervision of Orley Ashenfelter.

From 1988 to 1992, Card was Associate Editor of the Journal of Labor Economics and from 1993 to 1997, he was co-editor of Econometrica. He was the recipient of the 1995 John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to "that American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge." He gave the 2009 Richard T. Ely Lecture of the American Economic Association in San Francisco. A 2011 survey of economics professors named Card their fifth favorite living economist under the age of 60. Along with N. Gregory Mankiw, he was elected vice president of the American Economic Association for 2014.

In the early 1990s, Card received much attention for his finding, together with his then Princeton University colleague Alan B. Krueger that, contrary to widely accepted beliefs among economists, the minimum wage increase in New Jersey did not result in job reduction of fast food companies in that state. While the methodology (see difference in differences) and its claim has been disputed by some (see minimum wage for discussion), many economists, including Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman, accept Card and Krueger's findings.