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David Card is the Class of 1950 Professor Emeritus of Economics in the Business & Economics faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Center for Labor Economics and the Econometrics Laboratory. He earned a B.A. from Queen's University in 1978 and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1983. Early in his career, he served as Assistant Professor of Business Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business from 1982 to 1983 and as Assistant Professor and subsequently Professor of Economics at Princeton University from 1983 to 1997. He has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, Harvard University, UCLA, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. From 2012 to 2017, Card directed the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research in labor economics encompasses wage determination, education, inequality, immigration, unemployment, gender and race differences, welfare reform, minimum wages, strikes, collective bargaining, pension incentives, retirement, labor supply, and evaluation of social programs.