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HKU School of Economics and Finance's "Technology and The Economy" Public Lecture Series

09 Jun 2001

Professor Alan Krueger of Princeton University will present the fourth lecture on “Education Matters: Education and the New Economy”. The lecture will be held on Tuesday, June 12, 2001 at 5:30pm at the Rayson Huang Theatre of the University's main campus.

“Education Matters: Education and the New Economy”
Professor Alan Krueger, Princeton University
June 12, 2001

Professor Krueger will present evidence on the role of education in the information economy. Specific questions he will address include: How does education contribute to individual well being and economic growth? Why is education more valuable today than in the past? How can countries do a better job producing human capital?

Alan Krueger is the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is currently editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the most widely read journal in the economics profession. A prolific author, he has published widely on the economics of education, income dispersion, technological change, labor demand, social insurance, health economics, and environmental economics. He and David Card are co-authors of Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage (Princeton University Press, 1995). Named a Sloan Fellow in Economics in 1992, a National Bureau of Economic Research Olin Fellow in 1989-90, he was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1999-2000. After a brief stint as Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor, he was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1996. The following year he received the Kershaw Prize, which is awarded to a scholar below 40 who has made distinguished contributions to public policy analysis. He received a B.S. degree with honors from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

Members of the Press and interested public are cordially invited to attend. Admission to the public lecture series is free of charge but registration is requested. For further information regarding this public lecture series, please visit: http://www.econ.hku.hk/lecture/public-lecture.html or contact Ms. Mabel Woo, HKU's Economics and Finance, Tel: 2859 2192.