David Card
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David Card is a Canadian-American labor economist renowned for his influential empirical research on wages, immigration, and minimum wage policy, which has significantly shaped modern labor economics.
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| David Card canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Card Context triple: [John Bates Clark Medal, notableRecipient, David Card]
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A.
Raj Chetty
Raj Chetty is an influential American economist known for his empirical research on inequality, social mobility, and public policy using large-scale data.
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B.
Steven Levitt
Steven Levitt is an American economist and co-author of "Freakonomics," known for applying economic theory and data analysis to unconventional real-world topics.
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C.
William O. Wooldridge
William O. Wooldridge was a United States Army noncommissioned officer who became the first Sergeant Major of the Army, serving as the senior enlisted advisor to the Army’s leadership.
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D.
James Heckman
James Heckman is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his work on econometrics and the economics of human development, particularly the importance of early childhood education and skill formation.
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E.
David Romer
David Romer is an influential American macroeconomist known for his work on New Keynesian economics, advanced macroeconomic theory, and widely used graduate-level textbooks.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Card Target entity description: David Card is a Canadian-American labor economist renowned for his influential empirical research on wages, immigration, and minimum wage policy, which has significantly shaped modern labor economics.
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A.
Raj Chetty
Raj Chetty is an influential American economist known for his empirical research on inequality, social mobility, and public policy using large-scale data.
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B.
Steven Levitt
Steven Levitt is an American economist and co-author of "Freakonomics," known for applying economic theory and data analysis to unconventional real-world topics.
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C.
William O. Wooldridge
William O. Wooldridge was a United States Army noncommissioned officer who became the first Sergeant Major of the Army, serving as the senior enlisted advisor to the Army’s leadership.
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D.
James Heckman
James Heckman is a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his work on econometrics and the economics of human development, particularly the importance of early childhood education and skill formation.
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E.
David Romer
David Romer is an influential American macroeconomist known for his work on New Keynesian economics, advanced macroeconomic theory, and widely used graduate-level textbooks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
economist
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labor economist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts in Economics
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PhD in Economics ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management
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linked to:
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
John Bates Clark Medal ⓘ Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Canada ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Orley Ashenfelter ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Princeton University
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Queen's University at Kingston ⓘ |
| employer |
Princeton University
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University of California, Berkeley ⓘ University of Chicago (visiting positions) ⓘ
linked to:
University of Chicago
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| fieldOfWork |
applied microeconomics
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econometrics ⓘ labor economics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasResearchFocus |
immigration and labor markets
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inequality ⓘ labor market institutions ⓘ minimum wage policy ⓘ returns to education ⓘ unemployment ⓘ wage determination ⓘ |
| influenced |
empirical methods in applied microeconomics
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modern labor economics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
difference-in-differences methods in labor economics
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empirical research on immigration ⓘ empirical research on minimum wage ⓘ empirical research on wages ⓘ natural experiments in economics ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Econometric Society ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Empirical analysis of the Mariel boatlift and its impact on Miami labor markets
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Empirical studies of the New Jersey–Pennsylvania minimum wage experiment ⓘ Research on the impact of immigration on native workers' wages and employment ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley
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Co-director of the Center for Wage and Employment Dynamics ⓘ Director of the Center for Labor Economics at UC Berkeley ⓘ Professor of Economics at University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
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Referenced by (8)
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