Alan B. Krueger

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.

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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

Origin

Livingston, New Jersey, United States

Occupation

economist / university teacher

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rat

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

• Official sitehttp://www.krueger.princeton.edu/
• Xhttps://x.com/Alan_Krueger
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Krueger
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q931129

Tags

• New Jersey
• economist
• university teacher

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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