Dartmouth Department of Economics

08/21/2026

In this episode of the Health Policy Podcast, Prof. Chris Snyder discusses the FDA's exploration of drug repurposing and the work of the Market Shaping Accelerator, an initiative aimed at enhancing innovation in public health.

Christopher Snyder of Dartmouth College discusses FDA drug repurposing and market incentives in this episode of the Health Policy Podcast.

08/18/2026

Research by Prof. Ethan Lewis and co-author Michael A. Clemens is the feature of this Research Highlights Article, "Winning the visa lottery" https://www.aeaweb.org/research/immigration-restrictions-firms-workers via

Evidence from a US government lottery shows that restricting foreign low-skill workers shrinks businesses without creating jobs for Americans.

08/18/2026

"A Jan 2025 working paper studying Dartmouth College applicants, co-authored by Dartmouth economics professor Bruce Sacerdote, found that standardized test requirements often help high-achieving students from disadvantaged backgrounds."

Top-ranked colleges and the Trump administration are embracing the exams, but that doesn’t mean test-optional policies are falling out of favor everywhere. 

08/13/2026

Prof. Maddie McKelway and co-author Namrata Kala write in VoxDev

A field experiment with Indian carpet firms finds that letting workers vote on rewards boosts attendance but enables collusion, while giving managers discretion boosts output but damages workplace cohesion.

08/05/2026

Prof. Doug Irwin talks tariffs with Bloomberg:

President Trump is rebuilding his tariff wall with sweeping new tariffs on imports from most major trading partners. Dartmouth College Professor of Economics Douglas Irwin breaks down what it means for the economy and global trade on Bloomberg Open Interest.

08/05/2026

Danny Blanchflower's research is cited here...

It’s a “high intent, low budget” generation, the Harris Poll’s Libby Rodney told Fortune. "We call it placing financial regret over FOMO."

07/14/2026

Prof Doug Irwin talks to the South China Morning Post about how President Donald Trump’s second-term tariffs differ from U.S. trade policy over the past 250 years, saying they “are definitely a break from the past.”

The US and China have secured a fragile truce, but analysts warn Washington’s protectionist pivot marks a structural shift likely to last.

06/26/2026

After more than three decades keeping the economics department running and guiding the thousands of students who pass through her office, Karen Pelletier retires this summer.

After more than three decades keeping the economics department running and guiding the thousands of students who pass through her office, Karen Pelletier retires this summer.

06/15/2026

The Institute for Progress and the Market Shaping Accelerator, co-directed by economics professor Christopher Snyder, launched the Atlas of Innovation on June 2 at the Library of Congress, with Dartmouth represented by Snyder, postdoc Hassan Sayed, and Claire McMahon ’22. The Atlas provides philanthropies and policymakers with a practical toolkit for matching the right funding mechanism to the kind of breakthrough they want to support.

06/10/2026

Honors thesis, Julia Abbott ’26, “Do Violent Shocks Shift Migration Patterns? Educational Selection in Middle Eastern Immigration to the United States.” - Violent crises in the Middle East reduce positive selection into U.S. immigration. Post shock cohorts are less educated, lower income, older, more female, and migration flows of children increase.