Orley Clark Ashenfelter. is an American economist

Economics

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. He is a professor of economics at Princeton University

Princeton University

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 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

Claremont McKenna College

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. 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

Frisch Medal

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 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

American Economic Review

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. He analyzed the results of the Judgment of Paris wine tasting event with Richard E. Quandt

Richard E. Quandt

Richard Emeric Quandt is a Guggenheim Fellowship winning economist who analyzed the results of the Judgment of Paris wine tasting event with Orley Ashenfelter. Quandt serves as a professor of economics at Princeton University. He is current senior adviser to the Andrew W...

. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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 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

Lick-Wilmerding High School

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, San Francisco.
Bevin Ashenmiller, an economics professor at Occidental College

Occidental College

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, Los Angeles.
Tracey Ashenfelter, a freelance painter in San Antonio, Texas.
Both Gillian and Bevin are Princeton Alumni. Tracey is an Owen Graduate School of Management

Owen Graduate School of Management

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 Alumni at Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University

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