Orley Ashenfelter

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Orley Clark Ashenfelter is a Frisch Medal winning economist who serves as a professor of economics at Princeton University. His areas of specialization include labor economics, econometrics, and law and economics. He is the director of the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University, and 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 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 Scienes, 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. He analyzed the results of the Judgment of Paris wine tasting event with Richard E. Quandt. ^{[1] [2]}.

Ashenfelter was born in San Francisco and attended Claremont McKenna Men's College.

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1. ^ Orley Ashenfelter and Richard E. Quandt Analyzing a Wine Tasting Statistically
2. ^ G. Taber The Judgment of Paris: California vs France pg 159-160 Simon & Schuster ISBN 0743247515