Berkeley Professor to Discuss Economics of Immigration at The University of Scranton
David Card, Ph.D., director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, will present “The Economics of Immigration” at The University of Scranton’s 31st Henry George Lecture Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the McIlhenny Ballroom of the DeNaples Center on campus.
David Card, Ph.D., director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss “The Economics of Immigration” at The University of Scranton’s 31st Henry George Lecture Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 7:30 p.m.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the McIlhenny Ballroom of the DeNaples Center on campus.
An economist with an interest in immigration, wages, education and health insurance, Dr. Card is the co-author of the book, “Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage,” and co-editor of “The Handbook of Labor Economics,” “Seeking a Premier Economy: The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms,” and “Small Differences That Matter: Labor Markets and Income Maintenance in Canada and the United States.” In addition, he has published more than 90 journal articles, and served as co-editor of both Econometrica and the American Economic Review.
He has been elected a fellow of both the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1995 he was the recipient of the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Prize, given to an economist under the age of 40 who has made significant contributions to the field. His other accolades include the IZA Labor Economics Award and the Econometric Society’s Frisch Medal by the Econometric Society.
Dr. Card is well known for his work studying the minimum wage. He received widespread attention for a 1994 paper he co-authored with Alan Krueger looking at the ramifications of New Jersey raising its minimum wage from $4.25 to $5.05. Looking to examine changes occurring at fast food establishments in response to the minimum-wage increase, the economists used similar restaurants across the border in Pennsylvania as a control group of businesses not subject to the increase.
In the end, the study concluded that there was no evidence that New Jersey’s minimum-wage increase resulted in a decrease in employment statewide relative to the Pennsylvania restaurants. This “matching” method of studying the minimum wage pioneered by Dr. Card and Krueger has since been adopted by numerous economists.
The Henry George Lecture Series is presented by The University of Scranton’s Economics and Finance Department and the campus chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon, an international honor society for economics. Funding for the series comes from a grant from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, which was established in 1925 to advance the ideas of the 19th century economist and social reformer Henry George as articulated in such books as “Progress and Poverty.”
The Henry George Lecture Series is the preeminent public lecture series in economics in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Among the distinguished list of speakers who have spoken at previous lectures are 10 winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics: Angus Deaton (2015), Robert Shiller (2013), Tom Sargent (2011), Peter Diamond (2010), Paul Krugman (2008), Joseph Stiglitz (2001), George Akerlof (2001), Amartya Sen (1998), Robert Lucas (1995) and Robert Solow (1987).
For further information about the Henry George Lecture, contact The University of Scranton’s Department of Economics and Finance at 570-941-4048 or janice.mecadon@scranton.edu.
