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economist and professor of economics

David Card is the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests include immigration, wages, education, and health insurance. He has published more than 40 articles in international journals. Also he has writed 8 books.

Works

  • article

    • (with Orley Ashenfelter). "Time Series Representations of Economic Variables and Alternative Models of the Labor Market." Review of Economic Studies , 69 (September 1982).

    • "Cost of Living Escalators in Major Union Contracts." Industrial and Labor Relations Review , 37 (October 1983).

    • "Microeconomic Models of Wage Indexation." Annual Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association (December 1984).

    • (with Orley Ashenfelter). "Using the Longitudinal Structure of Earnings to Estimate the Effect of Training Programs." Review of Economics and Statistics 67 (November 1985).

    • (with Carlos Dobkin and Nicole Maestas). “The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Health Care Utilization: Evidence from Medicare”. American Economic Review , 98 December 2008.

    • “How Immigration Affects United States Cities.” In Robert Inman, editor Urban Enigma: City Problems, City Prospects . Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2009.

    • (with Brian McCall). "When to Start a Fight and When to Fight Back: Workers' Compensation Liability Denials and Disputes." Journal of Labor Economics , 27 (April 2009).

    • “Immigration and Inequality”. American Economic Review 99 May 2009.

    • (with Carlos Dobkin and Nicole Maestas). “Does Medicare Save Lives?” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124 (May 2009).

    • (with Kevin Hallock and Enrico Moretti). “The Geography of Giving: The Effect of Corporate Headquarters on Local Charities.” Journal of Public Economics , 94 (April 2010).

    • (with A. Abigail Payne and Martin Dooley). “School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly ‐ Funded Catholic Schools.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics , 2 (October 2010)

    • (with Jochen Kluve and Andrea Weber). “Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta ‐ Analysis.” Economic Journal Features , November 2010.

    • (with Michael Ransom). “Pension Plan Characteristics and Framing Effects in Employee Savings Behavior.” Review of Economics and Statistics , January 2011.

    • (with Gordon B. Dahl). “Family Violence and Football: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior.” Quarterly Journal of Economics , March 2011.

    • “Origins of the Unemployment Rate: The Lasting Legacy of Measurement without Theory.” American Economic Review , May 2011.

    • (with Stefano Della Vigna and Ulrike Malmendier. “The Role of Theory in Field Experiments”. Journal of Economic Perspectives , Summer 2011.

    • (with Christian Dustmann and Ian Preston). “Immigration, Wages, and Compositional Amenities.” Journal of the European Economic Association , February 2012.

    • (with Ana Rute Cardoso). "Can Compulsory Military Service Increase Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics , forthcoming 2012.

    • (with Alexandre Mas, Enrico Moretti, and Emmanuel Saez). "Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction.” American Economic Review , forthcoming 2013.

    • (with Laura Giuliano). “Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends.” Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming 2013.

  • book

    • (co ‐ authored with Alan B. Krueger; edited by Randall Akee and Klaus Zimmerman). Wages, School Quality, and Employment Demand . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

    • (co ‐ edited with Orley Ashenfelter) Handbook of Labor Economics (volumes 4a ‐ 4b). Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011.

    • (co ‐ edited with Alan Auerbach and John Quigley). Poverty, the Distribution of Income, and Public Policy . New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006.

    • (co ‐ edited with Richard Blundell and Richard B. Freeman) Seeking a Premier Economy . Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, 2004.

    • (co ‐ edited with Rebecca M. Blank) Finding Work: Jobs and Welfare Reform. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000.

    • (co ‐ edited with Orley Ashenfelter) Handbook of Labor Economics Volumes 3a ‐ 3c. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1999.

    • (co ‐ authored with Alan B. Krueger) Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.

    • (co ‐ edited with Richard B. Freeman). Small Differences that Matter: Labor Markets and Income Maintenance in Canada and the United States . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

All works

Interests

  • Research Interests: Welfare reform; Immigration; Effects of Medicaid program; Pension incentives and retirement; Labor supply; Education; Minimum wages; Strikes and collective bargaining; Evaluation of social programs; Unemployment; Wage rigidity