(2021) David Card
David Edward Card (born 1956) is a Canadian-American labour economist and the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been since 1997. He was awarded half of the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences \"for his empirical contributions to labour economics\", with Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens jointly awarded the other half.
David Card was born in Guelph, Ontario. His parents were dairy farmers. Card is a graduate of John F. Ross Collegiate Vocational Institute, he attended it between the years of 1970 to 1975. Card was originally pursuing a degree in physics, before eventually switching to economics. He then earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen\'s University in 1978 and his Ph.D. degree in economics in 1983 from Princeton University, after completing a doctoral dissertation titled \"Indexation in long term labor contracts\" under the supervision of Orley Ashenfelter.
Card began his career at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, where he was assistant professor of Business Economics for 2 years. He was on the faculty at Princeton from 1983 to 1997, before moving to Berkeley; from 1990 to 1991 he served as a visiting professor at Columbia University. From 1988 to 1992, Card was Associate Editor of the Journal of Labor Economics and from 1993 to 1997, he was co-editor of Econometrica. From 2002 to 2005, he was co-editor of The American Economic Review.
