Professor of Economics and DeWalt H. 1921 and Marie H. Ankeny Professorship in Economic Policy, Dartmouth College
I am an economist specializing in the study of education, public policy, and children’s well being in historical perspective. My research has drawn inspiration from major policy shifts in 20th century America, including the spread of publicly funded early education and passage of landmark federal civil rights, education, and immigration legislation. My recent work has focused on childcare and early education and on understanding how policy design, economic conditions, and political voice affect educational attainment and economic mobility.
My research has received financial support from the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation and has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Human Resources, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Labor Economics and the Journal of Urban Economics, among other outlets. In recent years, I have also occasionally authored policy pieces for The Hamilton Project.
In addition to my faculty appointment at Dartmouth College, I am a Research Associate in the Programs on Education, Development of the American Economy, and Children and Families at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). I am also an Editor at the Journal of Labor Economics, a member of the editorial board of ILR Review, a nominee for the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association, a former elected member of the Executive Board of the Society of Labor Economists, and a former Co-editor at the Journal of Human Resources. I earned my B.A. summa cum laude from Franklin and Marshall College in 1997 and my Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 2003 and joined the Dartmouth faculty in 2006.