The University of Nebraska Department of Economics will host the 2024 Nebraska Summit at the College of Business in Lincoln, Nebraska. The summit will focus on empirical research in labor economics and closely related fields.
2024 Keynote Speakers
David Card, Class of 1950 Professor of Economics | University of California, Berkeley -- Card's research interests include wage determination, education, inequality, immigration and gender-related issues. He co-authored the 1995 book Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, co-edited eight additional titles and published over 100 journal articles and book chapters. In 1995, he received the American Economic Association John Bates Clark Prize, which is awarded to the economist under 40 whose work made the most significant contribution to the field. He was president of the AEA in 2021 and co-recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2021.
Alessandra Voena, professor of economics | Stanford University -- Voena's research interests include the economics of the family and science and innovation. She is an editor at the Journal of Labor Econommics, foreign editor of the Review of Economic Studies and senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. She is a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, which is given to early-career researchers with the potential to revolutionize their fields, and the Carlo Alberto Medal, which is granted biennially to an Italian economist under age 40 who has made outstanding contributions to economics.
Program Committee: Rebecca Jack, Daniel Tannenbaum & Brenden Timpe