About David Card
David Card is Professor of the Graduate School and Class of 1950 Professor Emeritus at the
University of California. Before joining Berkeley he taught at University of Chicago in 1982‐83 and Princeton University from 1983 to 1996. He has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, Harvard University, UCLA, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. From 2012 to 2017 he was Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Card’s research interests include wage determination, education, inequality, immigration, and gender‐related issues. He co‐authored the 1995 book Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, co‐edited eight additional titles, and has published over 120 journal articles and book chapters. In 1995, he received the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Prize, which is awarded to the economist under 40 whose work is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the field. He was President of the American Economic Association in 2021 and co‐recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2021.
University of California. Before joining Berkeley he taught at University of Chicago in 1982‐83 and Princeton University from 1983 to 1996. He has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, Harvard University, UCLA, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. From 2012 to 2017 he was Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Card’s research interests include wage determination, education, inequality, immigration, and gender‐related issues. He co‐authored the 1995 book Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, co‐edited eight additional titles, and has published over 120 journal articles and book chapters. In 1995, he received the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Prize, which is awarded to the economist under 40 whose work is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the field. He was President of the American Economic Association in 2021 and co‐recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2021.
September 2026
Targeted Acceleration in Middle School Math: Impacts on College Entry, Degree Completion, and STEM
David Card, Laura Giuliano
September 2026
The Returns to International Migration in a Free Mobility Setting: Evidence from Austria and Germany
Andrea Weber, David Card, Wolfgang Dauth, Wolfgang Frimmel, Julia Schmieder, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
May 2023
Gender Preferences in Job Vacancies and Workplace Gender Diversity
David Card, Fabrizio Colella , Rafael Lalive