David Card

David Card, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (2021), is Professor of the Graduate School and Class 1950 Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Born in Guelph, Ont., he holds a bachelor’s degree from Queen’s University and a PhD from Princeton University. He has taught at the University of Chicago and Princeton, and has held visiting appointments at Columbia, Harvard, UCLA and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

An internationally recognized leader in labour economics, Card pioneered the use of natural experiments to study real-world labour markets, a method that helped launch the “credibility revolution” in economics. His influential research on minimum wage, immigration, education, inequality and gender reshaped debates in both academic and public policy circles. Landmark studies include evidence that raising the minimum wage in New Jersey did not reduce employment, and that the arrival of Cuban immigrants in Miami had no negative impact on the local labour market.

David Card is co-author of Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage and has published more than 120 journal articles and book chapters. He has supervised over 100 doctoral dissertations, founded Berkeley’s Center for Labor Economics, directed the Labour Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research and served as president of the American Economic Association in 2021. Among his many honours is the John Bates Clark Medal (1995).

David Card will address the Faculty of Arts and Science convocation ceremony on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, at 8 p.m.