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article Prof. Nina Pavcnik discusses her research on VoxDev Talks

March 08, 2023

In this episode of VoxDevTalks, Nina Pavcnik spoke with Tim Phillips at the 2023 STEG conference at The London School of Economics to discuss new research with Brian McCaig and Woan Foong Wong on the long-term effects of export opportunities to a large destination market for Vietnam.

article Episode #1 Big Green Economics Podcast

February 24, 2023

Listen now to the first episode! The Big Green Economics Podcast tells the story of the Department of Economics at Dartmouth, highlighting a professor's research in one bite-sized (10-20 minute) episode. In episode 1, Dept. Chair Dr. Andrew Samwick discusses the core values of Dartmouth Economics and his role at the department.

article In the News: The Five Best Business books

January 10, 2023

"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.

article "Work and Leisure" study cited

December 21, 2022

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.

article WSJ OpEd: The High Price of Covid Learning Loss

November 22, 2022

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.

article Prof. Novosad, Charlie Rafkin '16, and Sam Asher Publish in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

October 03, 2022

In their paper, "Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans" Asher, Novosad, and Rafkin study U.S. mortality change over the last three decades. They develop an innovative measurement technique that solves a problem that has made it difficult to measure mortality change at specific education levels. They show that mortality changes, at constant education percentiles, can be bounded under minimal assumptions.