Famous Economist 'Alan Krueger' Passed away recently. He belongs to which country?

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Famous Economist 'Alan Krueger' Passed away recently. He belongs to which country?


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Alan Bennett Krueger was an American economist who worked as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and as the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University from September 17, 1960, until March 16, 2019. He was President Barack Obama's nominee for Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from May 2009 to October 2010, when he returned to Princeton. He was appointed chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers by Obama in 2011 and served in that position from November 2011 until August 2013. According to Research Papers in Economics, he was among the top 50 economists in the world.

Krueger grew raised in Livingston, New Jersey, in a Jewish household and graduated from Livingston High School in 1979.

Krueger earned his B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University (with honors) and his A.M. and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1985 and 1987, respectively.

In 1994–95, he worked for the US Department of Labor as Chief Economist. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Society of Labor Economists, Econometric Society, and American Academy of Political and Social Science, and awarded the Kershaw Prize, Mahalanobis Prize, and IZA Prize (with David Card). He was on the Executive and Supervisory Committee (ESC) of CERGE-EI, a Czech Republic-based academic organization.

Famous Economist Alan Krueger Passed away recently He belongs to which country

President Barack Obama nominated him to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy on March 7, 2009. He announced his departure from the Treasury Department in October 2010 in order to return to Princeton University.

Obama nominated him to be chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers on August 29, 2011, and the Senate unanimously confirmed his appointment on November 3, 2011.

He also wrote a number of works on topics such as education, labor markets, and income distribution.

He was well noted for his work on the Kuznets Curve for the Environment. He contributed to The New York Times Economic Scene column from 2000 to 2006.