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My Take
Alan Krueger is an economist I hold in particular esteem. Born in New Jersey in 1960, he became a leading empiricist whose work on the minimum wage genuinely upended conventional wisdom and insisted that data, not dogma, settle arguments. As a Princeton professor he embodied rigorous, evidence-first scholarship, and his service in the Obama administration showed he was willing to take theory into the messy arena of real policy. He also had the rare gift of explaining economics in plain, human terms. His early death in 2019 was a real loss. I remember him as a scholar who truly wanted to make the world better.
Overview
Alan Bennett Krueger (September 17, 1960 – March 16, 2019) was an American economist who was the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, nominated by President Barack Obama, from May 2009 to October 2010, after which he returned to Princeton.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Alan B. Krueger
- Name (Japanese)
- アラン・クルーガー
- Reading
- あらん・くるーがー
- Born
- September 17, 1960 – March 16, 2019
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Rat
- Origin
- Livingston, New Jersey, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- economist / university teacher
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Livingston High School
- University
- Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Awards & achievements
- 2017 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize
- 2006 IZA Prize in Labor Economics
- 1996 Fellow of the Econometric Society
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2013 Clarivate Citation Laureates
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
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