Control of Congress still in question, but Democrats avoid a "red wave."
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November 09, 2022
Econ major Holley Cromwell '23 was named Second Team All-Ivy along with teammate Bronwyn Bird. Holley is also Dartmouth's first Ivy League weekly award winner of any kind since 2017 and first Player of the Week honoree since 2013.
November 03, 2022
Productivity is strong in manufacturing, but it's down elsewhere in the private sector, according to Prof. Comin. He noted that productivity is particularly tricky to gauge for knowledge workers, whose contributions aren't as easy to measure.
November 03, 2022
Professor Eric W. Zitzewitz was featured in this WalletHub piece about credit cards with no foreign transaction fees.
October 26, 2022
Come hear from leaders of one of the fastest growing industries of this century, and explore the many opportunities within software. Thursday, November 3, 2022, 2-3:30pm Hayword Room, Hanover Inn; 5:30-7:30pm Reception, South Atrium Engineering & Computer Science Center
October 18, 2022
The Neukom Fellows program is an interdisciplinary postdoctoral program at Dartmouth that may provide another means of working with or being mentored by faculty in our department. Please see the position announcement at https://neukom.dartmouth.edu/funding/faculty/postdoctoral-fellows
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.
September 30, 2022
Professor Elizabeth Cascio and co-author Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach's paper "First in the Class? Age and the Education Production Function" published in 2016 is featured in this article in The Atlantic magazine.
September 16, 2022
Professor Sacerdote's study, "Do senators and house members beat the stock market? Evidence from the STOCK Act," published in the Journal of Public Economics in March 2022 informs this New York Times article.
September 14, 2022
Department of Economics Lecture Series on Inequality, Discrimination, and Opportunity. Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 5:00-6:00PM (ET), Steele Hall 006.