At Dartmouth Economics, we offer courses in areas like competition and strategy, development economics, finance, health economics, international economics, labor economics, macroeconomics, and public economics. We use the frameworks of economics and data analysis to understand pressing social issues, and we involve our students in that work.
Economics professor Erzo F.P. Luttmer is the first Dartmouth faculty member to lead the American Economic Review, the flagship journal of the American Economic Association.
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The AEA Summer Program is a prestigious program that uniquely enables students to prepare for the rigors of graduate studies—particularly at the PhD level—through two months of intensive training in microeconomics, math, econometrics and research methods with leading faculty.
"Naked Economics," the 2002 primer by Senior Lecturer and Policy Fellow Charles Wheelan '88, is listed in The Wall Street Journal as the top book on business by Burton Malkiel, author of the classic A Random Walk Down Wall Street.
The study, 'Work and Leisure in the United States and Europe: Why So Different?' by Prof. Sacerdote and co-authors Alberto Alesina and Edward Glaeser informs a recent Op-ed by the popular columnist Paul Krugman.
As part of Econ 70, Prof. Comin's immersion experience course in Peru, a team of Dartmouth students consisting of Sunint Bindra, Harrison Hawkins, and Kevin Berghius organized a social impact project in conjunction with Team4Tech.
A Wall Street Journal editorial cites a new study co-authored by economics professor Douglas Staiger that found a recent decline in 8th-grade national math assessment tests during the pandemic could represent a 1.6% decline in lifetime earnings if allowed to become permanent.
Congratulations to the 2022 Fed Challenge Team: Kevin Cao, Brandon Chen, Kira Hobson, Joanne Liu, Lewis MacMillan, Ian McGrory, Lake McGreevy, John Petrich, Nicholas Taborsky, Emily Wang.