NBER profile: David Card.

David Card directs the NBER's Program on Labor Studies and is the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his B.A. in economics from Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) in 1978 and his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1983. He taught at Princeton University from 1983 to 1996, and has held visiting appointments at Columbia and Harvard Universities and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

His current research interests include wage inequality, immigration, education, and the evaluation of social programs. He has also worked on minimum wages, labor supply, unemployment, and the effects of trade unions. He has co-edited two NBER volumes focused on comparative labor market institutions, and was the co-editor of volumes 2-4 of the Handbook of...