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2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
117
Citations
97885
World Ranking
42
National Ranking
33

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - Jacob Mincer Award, the Society of Labour Economics (SOLE)
  • 2014 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • 2006 - IZA Prize in Labor Economics, Institute for the Study of Labor
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1995 - John Bates Clark Medal, the American Economic Association
  • 1991 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

David Card is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States and has a substantial body of work primarily in economics and social sciences. Their research spans several interconnected areas, reflecting a focus on labor market dynamics, wage inequality, and related social and economic phenomena.

Their recent publications include:

  • Monopsony in the Labor Market, 2022, The Journal of Human Resources
  • HIGH SCHOOL CHOICES AND THE GENDER GAP IN STEM, 2020, Economic Inquiry
  • Who Set Your Wage?, 2022, American Economic Review
  • Unions and wage inequality: The roles of gender, skill and public sector employment, 2020, Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économie
  • Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Employment and Pay Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil, 2021, American Economic Review

David Card frequently collaborates with several scholars, with frequent co-authors including Jesse Rothstein, Moises Yi, Andrea Weber, Lowell J. Taylor, and Stefano DellaVigna.

Their work is commonly published in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Labor Economics
  • American Economic Review
  • AEA Papers and Proceedings
  • The Journal of Human Resources

The main fields of study for David Card are Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Social Sciences.

The subfields encompass Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, Public Administration, and Education.

Key topics in their research include:

  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Labor Movements and Unions
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
  • Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth

David Card has been recognized with multiple awards over their career, including the Jacob Mincer Award from the Society of Labour Economics (SOLE) in 2019, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2014, fellowship in the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2013, the IZA Prize in Labor Economics in 2006, the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association in 1995, as well as fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society in previous years.

Best Publications

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

    David Card;Alan B. Krueger

  • The causal effect of education on earnings

    David Card

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

    David Card;David Card;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

  • Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration

    David Card

  • Estimating the Return to Schooling: Progress on Some Persistent Econometric Problems

    David Card

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

    David Card;Alan B. Krueger

  • THE IMPACT OF THE MARIEL BOATLIFT ON THE MIAMI LABOR MARKET

    David Card

  • Using Geographic Variation in College Proximity to Estimate the Return to Schooling

    David Card

  • Skill‐Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles

    David Card;John E. DiNardo

  • Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage.

    Samuel Cohn;David Card;Alan B. Kreuger

  • Active labor market policy evaluations: a meta-analysis

    David Edward Card;Jochen Kluve;Andrea Maria Weber

  • Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality

    David Card;Joerg Heining;Patrick Kline

  • Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis

    David Card;Thomas Lemieux

  • The Effects of Immigration on the Labor Market Outcomes of Natives

    Joseph Altonji;David Card

  • The Effects of Immigration on the Labor Market Outcomes of Natives

    Joseph G. Altonji;David Card

  • Using the Longitudinal Structure of Earnings to Estimate the Effect of Training Programs

    Orley Ashenfelter;David Card

  • Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction

    David Card;Alexandre Mas;Enrico Moretti;Emmanuel Saez

  • Regression Discontinuity Inference with Specification Error

    David S. Lee;David Card

  • WHAT WORKS? A META ANALYSIS OF RECENT ACTIVE LABOR MARKET PROGRAM EVALUATIONS

    David Card;Jochen Kluve;Andrea Weber

  • On the Covariance Structure of Earnings and Hours Changes

    John M. Abowd;David Card

  • Immigration and Inequality

    David Card

  • IS THE NEW IMMIGRATION REALLY SO BAD

    David Edward Card

  • The Effects of Immigration on the Labor Market Outcomes of Less-skilled Natives

    Joseph G Altonji;David Card

  • Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory

    David Card;Ana Rute Cardoso;Joerg Heining;Patrick Kline

  • Bargaining, Sorting, and the Gender Wage Gap: Quantifying the Impact of Firms on the Relative Pay of Women

    David Card;Ana Rute Cardoso;Patrick Kline

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

    David Card;David Card;Alan B. Krueger;Alan B. Krueger;Alan B. Krueger

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan B. Krueger
Alan B. Krueger Princeton University
Thomas Lemieux
Thomas Lemieux University of British Columbia
Philip K. Robins
Philip K. Robins University of Miami
Stefano DellaVigna
Stefano DellaVigna University of California, Berkeley
Orley Ashenfelter
Orley Ashenfelter Princeton University
Richard B. Freeman
Richard B. Freeman Harvard University
John DiNardo
John DiNardo University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jesse Rothstein
Jesse Rothstein University of California, Berkeley
Enrico Moretti
Enrico Moretti University of California, Berkeley
Phillip B. Levine
Phillip B. Levine Wellesley College

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