He was known for research into the opioid crisis, the gig economy and the minimum wage.
By Harrison Smith Harrison Smith Obituary writer Email Bio Follow March 18 at 11:59 AM Alan Krueger, an influential labor economist who served in the Clinton administration and chaired President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, has died. He was 58.
His death was announced by Princeton University, where he served as professor of political economy and had taught since 1987. The school said he died over the weekend but did not offer details. Dr. Krueger co-authored groundbreaking studies on raising the minimum wage — he found that it seemed to have no negative effect on employment, a conclusion that drew scorn from conservative scholars who questioned his research — and in recent years examined the impact of the opioid epidemic, which he linked to declining labor-force participation rates.Dr. Krueger served for one year as the Labor Department’s chief economist under President Bill Clinton.
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