Orley Ashenfelter

Orley Ashenfelter
Born	(1942-10-18) October 18, 1942 San Francisco, California
Nationality	American
Institution	Princeton University
Field	Labor economics, applied econometrics
Alma mater	Princeton University Claremont McKenna College
Influenced	Joshua Angrist, David Card
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) 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. He 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. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993. 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 alumna of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.

Awards

• 1977 Fellow, Econometric Society
• 1984 Ragnar Frisch Prize, Econometric Society
• 1993 Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
• 2002 Doctoral Honoris Causa, University of Brussels
• 2003 IZA Price in Labor Economics
• 2005 Corresponding Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh
• 2007 Karel Englis Medal, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• 2008 Distinguished Fellow, American Economic Association
• 2010 LERA 2010 Academic Fellow
• 2014 Honorary Doctorate, Charles University

Cooperation with Charles University

Since the early 1990s, Professor Ashenfelter has actively participated in the process of restoration of doctoral education and research in economics in the Czech 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 at CERGE-EI, the joint workplace of the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education (CERGE) of Charles University, Prague, an 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.

It was his indisputable scientific contribution together with his support of research on transition economics and of economics education at Charles University that has led the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences to award him an Honorary Doctorate of Charles University in Prague on the 15th of January, 2014.

External links

• Orley C. Ashenfelter — Faculty Associate + C.V. link
• Interview in Czech television 2014 January 18 (English), (Czech)