What is Alan Krueger?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Alan Krueger |image = 20170817 AlanKrueger FacultyPortrait CF 0011 (cropped).jpg |office = 27th Chair of the [[Council of Economic Advisers]] |president = [[Barack Obama]] |term_start = November 7, 2011 |term_end = August 2, 2013 |predecessor = [[Austan Goolsbee]] |successor = [[Jason Furman]] |office1 = [[Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy]] |president1 = [[Barack Obama]] |term_start1 = May 7, 2009 |term_end1 = October 16, 2010 |predecessor1 = [[Phillip Swagel]] |successor1 = [[Janice Eberly]] |birth_name = Alan Bennett Krueger |birth_date = {{birth date|1960|9|17}} |birth_place = [[Livingston, New Jersey]], U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|2019|3|16|1960|9|17}} |death_place = [[Princeton, New Jersey]], U.S. |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |spouse = Lisa Simon |children = 2 |education = [[Cornell University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br />[[Harvard University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]) |module = {{Infobox economist |child = yes |field = [[Labor economics]]<br />[[Macroeconomics]]<br />[[Public finance]] |doctoral_advisor = [[Lawrence Summers]]{{cn|date=March 2019}}<br />[[Richard B. Freeman]]{{cn|date=March 2019}} |repec_prefix = e |repec_id = pkr63}} }} '''Alan Bennett Krueger''' (September 17, 1960 – March 16, 2019) was an American [[economist]]. He worked at [[Princeton University]] and Research Associate at the [[National Bureau of Economic Research]]. Krueger was nominated by President [[Barack Obama]] to be [[Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy]], which he served from May 2009 to October 2010. He was nominated in 2011 by Obama as Chair of the White House [[Council of Economic Advisers]], and served in that office from November 2012 to August 2013. Krueger [[suic