Wages, School Quality, and Employment Demand

David Card is Faculty Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his B.A. in 1978 at Queen's University (Kingston) and his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1983. From 1988 to 1992 he was Associate Editor of the Journal of Labor Economics and from 1993 to 1997 co-editor of Econometrica. Since 1987 Alan B. Kruger has held a joint appointment in the Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. He is also the Founding Director of the Princeton University Survey Research Center and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Krueger has published widely on the economics of education, income dispersion, technological change, labor demand, social insurance, health economics, and environmental economics.

• I: INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITORS: INGENUITY AND CREATIVITY - DAVID CARD AND ALAN B. KRUEGER; II: SCHOOL QUALITY, EARNINGS, AND BLACK-WHITE WAGE DIFFERENCES; III: MINIMUM WAGES AND EMPLOYMENT DEMAND; IV: CONCLUDING THOUGHTS

I found that the book offers a timely discussion regarding a much politicized debate around the responsibility of societies to invest more in education and on their young people. The book is a gold mine of data which can spark lively discussions among educationalists, sociologists and economists.