Dartmouth Department of Economics

05/15/2026

Congratulations Nina!

More news Articles Nina Pavcnik Named Inaugural Dean of Arts and SciencesNews subtitleThe economist is committed to advancing liberal arts education and research excellence.ImageImage Economics professor Nina Pavcnik helped conceive and launch the School of Arts and Sciences and will serve as its in...

05/15/2026

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The drops go beyond the pandemic and cut across income, geographic and racial divides, new data shows.

05/14/2026

New OpEd in the The Wall Street Journal by Prof Chris Snyder and colleague Sarrin Chethik

Aspirin prevents heart attacks, and good policy could give other generic drugs a second life.

04/29/2026

Prof. Claudia Olivetti: Company leaders might not have the same incentive to offer generous paid parental leave because the labor market has loosened or there was little adoption of the parental leave offering. .

The companies announced last week that they will be reducing parental leave and other benefits for employees starting next year

03/17/2026

From 2024 to 2026, the returns on Mr. Mullin’s stock purchases outperformed the market by 8 percent, according to Bruce Sacerdote, a Dartmouth economist who examined Mr. Mullin’s trades at the request of The Times.

Markwayne Mullin’s financial dealings take on new importance as the Senate considers his nomination to lead an agency whose budget has vastly expanded.

03/06/2026

The 11th-hour betting, which totaled about $855,000, “makes you think it was someone who knew something about the timing,” said Eric Zitzewitz, a professor of economics at Dartmouth, who has studied prediction markets.

Polymarket users placed hundreds of bets of at least $1,000 predicting an imminent American strike, raising concerns about insider trading.

03/03/2026

Prof. Chris Snyder is interviewed by Freakonomics

02/16/2026

Using tariffs this way “is just extraordinary in U.S. history,” says Prof. Doug Irwin in this New York Times column.

Stocks have prospered while the world has plunged into disorder, an economist says. “Keep calm and carry on” may be the best investors can do.

02/05/2026

Emeritus Prof. Bill Fischel is cited in this The New York Times article:

When President Trump said he wanted to drive housing prices up, not down, he was speaking to a conundrum that has flummoxed policymakers for decades.

02/03/2026

Prof. Diego Ramos-Toro co-wrote this article in VoxDev

Compulsory military service in Argentina strengthened national identity and social integration in the long run, but had no meaningful effect on civic behaviour, institutional trust, or broader socio-economic outcomes, demonstrating that nation-building through shared service does not automatically t...