Ex-Obama aide, Princeton prof and labour economist Alan Krueger dies at 58

Recently, as the opioid epidemic drew headlines, he detailed how nearly half of men age 25 to 54 and not in the labor force took pain medication every day

Princeton University economist Alan Krueger, who served as chairman of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers and was one of the profession’s top experts on the labor market, has died. He was 58.

The New Jersey school announced his death on its website Monday. His family later issued a statement saying that Krueger took his own life. Police found Krueger inside his home on Saturday morning and he was later pronounced dead, said Sergeant Fred Williams, a spokesman for the Princeton Police Department.

Krueger, who had been a professor at Princeton since 1987, served in Obama’s White House from 2011 to