Orley Ashenfelter | |
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| Born | (1942-10-18)October 18, 1942 (age 83) San Francisco, California, US |
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| Alma mater | Princeton University Claremont McKenna College |
| Doctoral advisor | Albert Rees Stephen Goldfeld |
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| Discipline | Labor economics, appliedeconometrics |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Doctoral students | Robert LaLonde John Driffill Henry Farber Joseph Altonji David E. Bloom David Card[1] Janet Currie Joshua Angrist |
| Awards | Jacob Mincer Award (2005) IZA Prize in Labor Economics (2003) Frisch Medal (1982) |
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Orley Clark Ashenfelter (born October 18, 1942)[2] is an Americaneconomist and the Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics emeritus atPrinceton University. His areas of specialization include labor economics, econometrics, and law and economics. He was influential in contributing to the applied turn in economics.
Orley Ashenfelter attended most of his K-12 education in National City, a suburb ofSan Diego. He graduated from Sweetwater H.S., in 1960, achieving many honors there. Born inSan Francisco, Ashenfelter attendedClaremont McKenna Men's College. Ashenfelter received a Ph.D. in economics fromPrinceton University in 1970, having completed a doctoral dissertation titled "Racial discrimination and labor markets".[3][4] He has been director of the Office of Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Labor, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol. He was awarded theFrisch Medal in 1982. He is a recipient of theIZA Prize in Labor Economics, the Mincer Award for Lifetime Achievement of the Society of Labor Economists, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of Labor Economics, and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He also served as editor of theAmerican Economic Review. He analyzed the results of theJudgment of Pariswine tasting event withRichard E. Quandt.[5][6] He was elected a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993.[2] He is currently[when?] President of theAmerican Association of Wine Economists and an editor of theJournal of Wine Economics. Orley Ashenfelter has provided expert economic testimony in numerous legal cases, includingU.S. v. Apple (which focused on price-fixing in the market for eBooks), and the 1997 review of the proposed merger betweenOffice Depot andStaples Inc.[7] In 1998, he andRichard Posner co-foundedAmerican Law and Economics Review, and served jointly as editors-in-chief from then until 2005.[8]
Since the early 1990s, Ashenfelter has actively participated in the process of restoration of doctoral education and research in economics in theCzech Republic. Since 1999, he has been on the board of directors of the CERGE-EI Foundation, which aims to foster economics education in the region and which supports the doctoral program in economics atCERGE-EI, the joint workplace of the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education (CERGE) of Charles University, Prague, and of the Economics Institute (EI) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Between 2001 and 2007 he has also been a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI.
The Scientific Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Charles University in Prague on the January 15, 2014.[citation needed]
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| Preceded by | President of theAmerican Economic Association 2011– 2012 | Succeeded by |
