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115
Citations
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World Ranking
49
National Ranking
39

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2006 - IZA Prize in Labor Economics, Institute for the Study of Labor
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • 1996 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 1992 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Alan B. Krueger was affiliated with Princeton University in the United States during their academic career. Their research contributions spanned topics within Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Their work covered several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management, and Accounting. The main topics addressed in their research involved:

  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Franchising Strategies and Performance
  • Merger and Competition Analysis
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Economic Policies and Impacts

Alan B. Krueger published in a range of academic venues with notable frequent publications in:

  • The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • The Journal of Human Resources
  • Journal of Labor Economics
  • Viruses
  • Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft

Significant recent papers included:

  • Solo Self-Employment and Alternative Work Arrangements: A Cross-Country Perspective on the Changing Composition of Jobs, 2020, The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • Theory and Evidence on Employer Collusion in the Franchise Sector, 2021, The Journal of Human Resources
  • Rent Sharing within Firms, 2022, Journal of Labor Economics
  • Primary Cells from a CD46-Edited Bovine Heifer Have Reduced BVDV Susceptibility Despite Viral Adaptation to Heparan Sulfate, 2025, Viruses
  • Mindestlöhne und Beschäftigung: Eine Fallstudie der Fast-Food Branche in New Jersey und Pennsylvania, 2022, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft

Frequent co-authors who collaborated with Krueger included:

  • Tito Boeri
  • Giulia Giupponi
  • Stephen Machin
  • Orley Ashenfelter
  • David Cho

Throughout their career, they received several awards recognizing their contributions, including:

  • IZA Prize in Labor Economics, Institute for the Study of Labor, 2006
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2004
  • Fellows of the Econometric Society, 1996
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1992

Best Publications

  • Economic Growth and the Environment

    Gene M. Grossman;Alan B. Krueger

  • Environmental impacts of a North American free trade agreement

    Gene M Grossman;Alan B Krueger;Alan B Krueger;Alan B Krueger

  • Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania

    David Card;Alan B. Krueger

  • Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?

    David H. Autor;Lawrence F. Katz;Alan B. Krueger

  • Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being

    Daniel Kahneman;Alan B. Krueger

  • Education for Growth: Why and for Whom?

    Alan B. Krueger;Mikael Lindahl

  • Instrumental Variables and the Search for Identification: From Supply and Demand to Natural Experiments

    Joshua D. Angrist;Alan B. Krueger

  • Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings

    Joshua David. Angrist;Alan B. Krueger

  • Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States

    David Card;Alan B. Krueger

  • Experimental Estimates Of Education Production Functions

    Alan B. Krueger

  • EFFICIENCY WAGES AND THE INTER-INDUSTRY WAGE STRUCTURE

    Alan B. Krueger;Lawrence H. Summers

  • Empirical Strategies in Labor Economics

    Joshua David Angrist;Alan B. Krueger

  • How Computers Have Changed the Wage Structure: Evidence from Microdata, 1984–1989

    Alan B. Krueger

  • Education, Poverty and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?

    Alan B. Krueger;Jitka Malečková

  • Estimates of the Economic Return to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins

    Orley Ashenfelter;Alan B. Krueger

  • Would You Be Happier If You Were Richer? A Focusing Illusion

    Daniel Kahneman;Alan B. Krueger;David Schkade;Norbert Schwarz

  • Estimates of the Economic Returns to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins

    Orley Ashenfelter;Alan B Krueger

  • Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables

    Stacy Berg Dale;Alan B. Krueger

  • Economic Considerations and Class Size

    Alan B. Krueger

  • The Rise and Nature of Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States, 1995–2015:

    Lawrence F. Katz;Alan B. Krueger

Frequent Co-Authors

David Card
David Card University of California, Berkeley
Lawrence F. Katz
Lawrence F. Katz Harvard University
Arthur A. Stone
Arthur A. Stone University of Southern California
David A. Schkade
David A. Schkade University of California, San Diego
Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Jörn-Steffen Pischke London School of Economics and Political Science
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman Princeton University
Orley Ashenfelter
Orley Ashenfelter Princeton University
Robert E. Hall
Robert E. Hall Hoover Institution
Norbert Schwarz
Norbert Schwarz University of Southern California

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