Alan B. Krueger, Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, has been named to serve on the Board of Directors of MacArthur.
“We are delighted that Alan Krueger is joining the MacArthur Board,” said Robert Denham, chair of the Board and an attorney with the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson. “He brings insight and broad experience in economics, research, and public policy that will no doubt help shape our efforts to ensure MacArthur’s grantmaking has a significant and lasting impact.”
Dr. Krueger has published widely on the economics of education, terrorism, labor demand, income distribution, social insurance, labor market regulation, and environmental economics. Since 1987, he has held a joint appointment in the Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He is the founding Director of the Princeton University Survey Research Center and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and of the Institute for the Study of Labor. In 1994-95, he served as Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor.
“I am glad to welcome Alan to the Board,” said Foundation President Jonathan Fanton. “His scholarship and public service experience will inform our work in community and economic development, education, and policy.”
Dr. Krueger is co-author of Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, co-author of Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies?, and the author of What Makes A Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism and Education Matters: A Selection of Essays on Education. He is a member of the editorial board of Science, and was editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives from 1996 to 2002 and co-editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association from 2003-05. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation and of the Board of Directors of the American Institutes for Research.
He received a B.S. degree (with honors) from Cornell University's School of Industrial & Labor Relations, an A.M. in Economics from Harvard University in 1985, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1987.