A Canadian-American economist and Professor at UC Berkeley, awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2021 for his contributions to labor economics. Famous for pioneering the use of natural experiments to study causal questions in economics, particularly his work with Alan Krueger on minimum wage effects.
Established the natural experiment methodology as the gold standard in empirical labor economics; with Krueger, produced influential evidence that minimum wage increases do not necessarily reduce employment — challenging the dominant neoclassical consensus; advanced the credibility revolution in economics.
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