- Orley Ashenfelter
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Orley Clark Ashenfelter (born 1942).[1] is an American economist. He is a professor of economics at Princeton University and also the director of the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. His areas of specialization include labor economics, econometrics, and law and economics.
Born in San Francisco, Ashenfelter attended Claremont McKenna Men's College. has been director of the Office of Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Labor, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the Benjamin Meeker Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol. He was awarded the Frisch Medal in 1982. He is a recipient of the IZA 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 the American Economic Review. He analyzed the results of the Judgment of Paris wine tasting event with Richard E. Quandt.[2][3] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993.[1] He is currently President of the American Association of Wine Economists and an editor of the Journal of Wine Economics.
He has three daughters: Gillian Ashenfelter, a Biology and Marine Ecology teacher at Lick-Wilmerding High School, San Francisco. Bevin Ashenmiller, an economics professor at Occidental College, Los Angeles. Tracey Ashenfelter, a freelance painter in San Antonio, Texas. Both Gillian and Bevin are Princeton Alumni. Tracey is an Owen Graduate School of Management Alumni at Vanderbilt University.
References
- ^ a b "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
- ^ Orley Ashenfelter and Richard E. Quandt Analyzing a Wine Tasting Statistically
- ^ G. Taber The Judgment of Paris: California vs France pg 159-160 Simon & Schuster ISBN 0743247515
Categories:- 1942 births
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