Nobel Prize-winning economist David Card to NHH
One of the world’s most influential labor economists, Berkeley Professor David Card, will deliver the Sandmo Lecture on Public Policy at NHH.
Kunze at EU event with David Card
Professor Astrid Kunze joined Nobel Laureate David Card at a European Commission event in Brussels.
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre this week hosted the high-level event JRC in conversation with David Card, welcoming the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences, David Card.
extensive work using register data
Among the invited discussants was NHH Professor Astrid Kunze, an invitation which reflects her extensive work using register data to study labour markets and family policy.
Kunze participated in the afternoon technical session dedicated to the exchange about the relevance of administrative data to produce reliable evidence.
`Administrative and register data are central to a growing body of research at NHH’s Department of Economics. Access to detailed microdata enables researchers to study long-term labour market outcomes, gender gaps, education, family policy, and the effects of institutional reforms with high precision´, Astrid Kunze says.
Kunze is professor at the Department of Economics and Macro, Risk and Sustainability Centre.
Public value
The session was introduced by an overview of the new open access volume Data-Driven Learning in the EU: From Administrative Sources to Public Value, edited by Fabio Berton and Paolo Paruolo. Publication is expected July 2026.
The book highlights the importance of administrative microdata for policy analysis across EU countries. It presents case studies showing how administrative data can improve evidence-based policymaking in areas such as labour markets, social policy and environmental regulation.
In his keynote, David Card shared insights from his own research using administrative data from the US and Europe, including studies on training programmes, minimum wages and gender wage inequality.
The JRC event highlighted how improved access to administrative data can generate public value by strengthening transparency, improving policy design and increasing trust in public institutions.
