Please join us in congratulating Professor Doug Irwin being awarded the Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize for his book "Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy." The Prize is awarded every other year for an Outstanding Book on North American Economic History by the Economic History Association. More information about...
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The following excerpt is from Professor Bruce Sacerdote ‘s article "What to expect when a college assigns students to random roommates".
"Duke University recently announced that first-year students will now be randomly assigned to their dormmates. The goal is to give students a chance to meet and learn...
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Economics Department Open House for First Year Students will be held on Friday, September 7th, 8:30AM-9:30AM in Silsby Hall, Room 028. Hope to see you all there!
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While a growing literature has shown that women prefer investments in child welfare and increased redistribution, little is known about the long-term effect of empowering women. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in U.S. suffrage laws, we show that children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds who were exposed to women’s political empowerment during childhood experienced large increases in educational attainment, especially blacks and Southern whites. We also find improvements...
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"We’re told that we live in a flat world in which technology makes geography less important to where jobs are located. And yet, the productivity gap between rich and poor countries has grown dramatically over the past two centuries and continues to expand. It is called the Great Divergence"
American Economic Association produced a video "The Great Divergence" explains how technology diffusion...
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Dartmouth Economics Department is proud to announce that Ran Zhuo ’17 was awarded the Rintels Prize for the best honors thesis in the Social Sciences for the Class of 2017 for her thesis titled "Do Low Price Guarantees Guarantee Low Prices? Evidence from Competition between Amazon and Big-Box Stores."
The selection committee noted that "Ran identified a question that was full of economics, policy relevant, and poorly addressed in the prior literature".
Ran graduated as...
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Congratulations to Economics major Hung Duy Nguyen ’18 on being Dartmouth Salutatorian. Hung is a research scholar of Economics department's DERS program, his research work with Prof. Nina Pavcnik was reported at Dartmouth news ...
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On Satuday June 9th, 2018, Dartmouth Economics department hosted its annual graduation breakfast reception in honor of the class of 2018 graduates and their families. At the reception, department chair Chris Snyder and vice chair James Feyrer announced the awards and Honors students this year. For the detailed list, please check our...
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Prof. Elizabeth Cascio's recent research “Does Universal Preschool Hit the Target? Program Access and Preschool Impacts" was featured in New York Times Op-Ed "Some Good News — Seriously — About Politics" published on 06/03/2018, editorial by NYT Opinion...
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On May 9th 2018, as a featured guest, Professor Nina Pavcnik was invited to The Economist Online Debate Is the global trade system broken?. She provided her perspective of how governments should best help global trade system.
“Before answering how governments should help the losers from free trade, it is important to...
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