Who Is Alan B. Krueger?
…Here’s a run-down of what’s being said about Krueger today: Over at Ezra Klein’s Washington Post Wonkbook, Brad Plumer has a good in-depth look at Krueger’s most notable research. At…
…Here’s a run-down of what’s being said about Krueger today: Over at Ezra Klein’s Washington Post Wonkbook, Brad Plumer has a good in-depth look at Krueger’s most notable research. At…
…does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules. The CEA’s chairman is Alan Krueger, an economist whose work may be familiar to readers of this…
We recently solicited your questions for Alan Krueger, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Below are Krueger’s answers, in which he talks about the Bush tax cuts, the…
Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, EatWith, and other companies in the “sharing economy” are practically daring government regulators to shut them down. The regulators are happy to comply.
The public has almost no chance to buy good tickets to the best events. Ticket brokers, meanwhile, make huge profits on the secondary markets. Here’s the story of how this…
…held the same title: chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors. First up is current chairman Alan Krueger, whom I asked what would improve if Americans were more…
Education is the surest solution to a lot of problems. Except when it’s not.
Economist Alan Krueger‘s excellent work on terrorism — which we’ve discussed before — comes to the conclusion that suicide bombers tend to be surprisingly well-educated. They are not generally the…
…general principle that acts of terror are often committed by individuals with high levels of education is not at all unusual, a fact I learned from economist Alan Krueger‘s excellent…
Daniel Ek, a 23-year-old Swede who grew up on pirated music, made the record labels an offer they couldn’t refuse: a legal platform to stream all the world’s music. Spotify…
…Betsey Stevenson, Kahneman’s co-author Alan Krueger and Cass Sunstein all have senior government positions. Maybe they can figure out how to improve the nation’s mood. While the UK House of…
…data on hate groups in 3,100 U.S. counties, only to find, again, no correlation between economic conditions and the presence or absence of operational hate groups. Princeton economist Alan Krueger…
…ironic, one of the co-authors on the paper was Jim Poterba himself! We both got involved because we thought the project had some special merit for the profession. Alan Krueger…
The Princeton economist Alan Krueger — he led the Council of Economic Advisers under Obama, and his research has been featured several times on Freakonomics.com — is among a group…
…Alan B. Krueger found that the morning and evening commutes are among the least favored activities in peoples’ days? Yes, yes and yes. (By the way, the PG-13 rating of…
Mirroring Levitt’s thoughts on doctors plotting terrorist attacks, the Wall Street Journal takes an in-depth look at Alan Krueger‘s findings that terrorists tend to come from high-income, high-education families. David…
Backers of a $15 federal wage say it’s a no-brainer if you want to fight poverty. Critics say it’s a blunt instrument that leads to job loss. Even the economists…
America’s top colleges are facing record demand. So why don’t they increase supply? (Part 2 of our series from 2022, “Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.”)…
Harvard economist Raj Chetty uses tax data to study inequality, kid success, and social mobility. He explains why you should be careful when choosing your grade school teachers — and…
The former chairman of the Obama administration’s Council of Economic Advisors tells Steve how improv comedy was a better training ground for teaching than a Ph.D. from M.I.T., and why…
America’s top colleges are facing record demand. So why don’t they increase supply? (Part 2 of “Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.”)…
From baseball card conventions to Walmart, John List has always used field experiments to say revolutionary things about economics. He explains the value of an apology, why scaling shouldn’t be…
…has pioneered happiness measurement techniques with several of his colleagues (including Princeton star economist Alan Krueger, with whom I shared a fun discussion about happiness on a radio show last…
Using statistics for insight into terrorist and insurgent groups isn’t novel — Robert Pape and Alan Krueger have made strong contributions to our understanding of these bad actors through number…
…that features all sorts of interesting and intelligent stuff, like an article by Alan Krueger about terrorism and a profile of economist Jesse Shapiro. It is hard for me to…
…data increase, it will become more and more valuable. Katherine Abraham, Suzanne Bianchi, Dan Hamermesh, and Alan Krueger are spearheading the effort to save ATUS which you can read about…
…During the Great Recession * Michael Burda and Jenny Hunt, Explaining the German Labor Market Miracle * Alan Krueger and Andreas Mueller on Job Search and Well-being during Unemployment Spells…
…from an astonishing array of the very best economists: Acemoglu, Akerlof, Barro, Caballero, Glaeser, Goldin, Hall, Johnson, Katz, Krueger, Krugman, Nordhaus, Rodrik, Shleifer, Sims, and Shiller all spring to mind,…
…the other night from the National Council on Economic Education. My personal highlights were: sitting next to the Princeton economist Alan Krueger (who presented the Freakonomics award) and chatting with…
…about the list of questions was how many are linked in some way to economists. Larry Summers comes to mind on gender differences and shipping pollution to Africa, Alan Krueger…
