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Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Economics, Princeton University, 1983; B.A., Queen’s University, 1978.

Research Interests: Labor economics, immigration, minimum wage impacts, and education economics.

Appointments: Class of 1950 Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley; Director, Labor Studies Program, National Bureau of Economic Research.

Awards: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2021); John Bates Clark Medal (1995).

Publications:

• Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, Princeton University Press (1995).
• Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry, American Economic Review (1994).

Editorial Contributions: Co-editor, American Economic Review (2002–2005).

Additional Contributions: Pioneered empirical methods in labor economics; influential in policy debates on minimum wage.