Orley Ashenfelter

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Orley Ashenfelter (2017)

Orley Clark Ashenfelter (born October 18, 1942 in San Francisco ) is an American economist in the field of labor economics , econometrics and the economic analysis of law . Ashenfelter deals, among other things, with the influence of school education on (later) income or the comparison of income across national borders. He is Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics at Princeton University and is director of the Industrial Relations Section there .

Ashenfelter earned a bachelor's degree from Claremont McKenna College in 1964 and a Ph.D. at Princeton University . In 1972/73 he was head of the evaluation department at the US Department of Labor . From 1985 to 2001 he was editor-in-chief of the American Economic Review , and from 1999 to 2005 he was co-editor of the American Law and Economics Review . He is editor of the Handbook of Labor Economics .

Ashenfelter has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim grant in 1976 , the Frisch Medal in 1982 , the IZA Prize in Labor Economics in 2003 and the Jacob Mincer Prize in 2005 . In 1993 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2005 a corresponding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . He has been an elected member of the American Philosophical Society since 2017, the National Academy of Sciences and the British Academy since 2018 . Ashenfelter was President of the Society of Labor Economists in 2003, the American Law and Economics Association in 2010, and the American Economic Association in 2011 . In 2014 he received an honorary doctorate from Charles University in Prague .

Ashenfelter is married.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae. (PDF; 101 kB) Institute of Labor Economics, November 29, 2004, accessed on October 7, 2017 (English).
  2. ^ Editors of the American Economic Review. American Economic Association, accessed October 7, 2017 .
  3. ^ Awards - The Econometric Society. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
  4. ^ IZA - Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
  5. ↑ 2005 Mincer Award. In: sole-jole.org. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter A. (PDF; 945 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
  7. ^ Member History: Orley Ashenfelter. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 13, 2018 (English, with short biography).
  8. ^ Past Presidents. American Economic Association, accessed October 7, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Ashenfelter, Orley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ashenfelter, Orley Clark; Ashenfelter, Orley C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco