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.
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Prof. Elizabeth Cascio's work featured in The Atlantic
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.
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Bruce Sacerdote Quoted in NYTimes
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.
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William E. Spriggs: Why Economists Model Race and Discrimination Incorrectly
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.
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Predicting the Midterms
August 23, 2022
Prof. Eric Zitzewitz's study of prediction markets informs this New York Times article.
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Geographical Variation in Health Spending Across the US
August 22, 2022
A recent paper published in JAMA, co-authored by Prof. Jonathan Skinner, is the source for this news article from Policygenius.
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New Study Highlights Impact of Remote and Hybrid Learning
July 19, 2022
Economist Doug Staiger says academic delays in grades 3 through 8 require urgent action.
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Study: Slowing Down Automation May Have Economic Benefits
June 24, 2022
Researchers suggest taxing automation as displaced workers retrain.
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Class of 2022 Graduation Ceremony
June 13, 2022
On Friday, June 10th at 9am the Department of Economics met to congratulate its graduating class and present honors and awards.
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Dartmouth Undergraduate Economics Research Conference
May 27, 2022
Dartmouth Economic Research Scholars (DERS) hosted the Dartmouth Undergraduate Economics Conference (DUERC) on Saturday, May 14th, to encourage economic research among undergraduate students.
