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Labor economist David Card, co-recipient of the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, will deliver the annual Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Thursday, April 3, at 5 p.m. in Bowker Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public, with seating available on a first-come, first-served basis.

In his lecture, “Understanding Minimum Wage and Immigration Policies: Cause and Effect and Evidence-Based Approaches,” Card will explore the links between immigration, minimum wage and inequality. His research has challenged the conventional belief that increasing the minimum wage leads to job losses.

Before joining Berkeley, Card taught at the University of Chicago (1982-83) and Princeton University (1983-96). He has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, Harvard University, UCLA and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. From 2012 to 2017, he served as director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. 

Card is co-author of the 1995 book “Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage,” has co-edited eight additional titles and has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters. In 1995, he received the American Economic Association’s (AEA) John Bates Clark Prize, which is awarded to the economist under 40 whose work is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the field. In 2021, he served as AEA president and was co-recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his empirical contributions to labor economics.

Sponsored by the UMass Amherst Department of Economics, the Philip Gamble Memorial Lectureship Endowment was established by alumnus Israel Rogosa and other family and friends in memory of Philip Gamble, a member of the economics faculty from 1935-71 and chair of the department from 1942-65. Since the series began in 1995, Gamble lecturers have included Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, Duke University economist William A. Darity Jr., former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, former U.S. Ambassador to India and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard Law School professor Lani Guinier and Howard University economist William Spriggs. Card will be the 11^th recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to present the Gamble Lecture.

More information on the Department of Economics and the 2025 Gamble Lecture by David Card, as well as a complete list of previous Gamble lecturers with video of all speeches since 2008, can be found on the economics department website.