The Card Consensus

My Ph.D. Micro teacher, David Card, won the Nobel Prize last week.  My best-known piece on Card examines the tension between his research on the minimum wage and his research on immigration.  My most extensive discussion of his work and intellectual influence, however, appears in Chapter 3 of The Case Against Education.  Here’s the excerpt.  Enjoy!

Labor Economists Versus Ability Bias

Labor economists aren’t merely attuned to the possibility of ability bias.  They’ve long felt a professional re...