Alan Krueger
Age: 50
Employment: Economics professor at Princeton University, 1987-present; assistant secretary for economic policy and chief economist at the U.S. Treasury Department, 2009-10; chief economist at the U.S. Labor Department, 1994-95.
Education: Bachelor's degree from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, 1983; master's in economics from Harvard University, 1985; Ph.D. in economics from Harvard, 1987.
Books: Author of "What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism" (2007) and co-author of "Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage" (1995).
Family: He is married to Lisa Simon Krueger and has two children, Benjamin and Sydney.
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In a story published Apr. 12, 2024, about an anesthesiologist charged with tampering with bags of intravenous fluids and causing cardiac emergencies, The Associated Press erroneously spelled the first surname of defendant Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz. It is Rivera, not Riviera.
