Eric Edmonds is a Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College where he also serves as Department Chair. He is Editor-in-Chief of the World Bank Economic Review, a Senior Fellow of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). A development economist, his research focuses on understanding the development of agency in adolescence and the functioning of labor markets where participants may lack agency such as in child labor, forced labor, or human trafficking. He was educated at the University of Chicago (Bachelor’s and Master’s in Economics) and Princeton University (PhD in Economics). Here at Dartmouth, he teaches Economics 24 and 64.
Recent events:
- New work in progress on understanding early school dropout, child labor, and migration in Guatemala (with C. Coccia, M. Jakob, and M. Romero)
- New work in progress on understanding how mental health influences schooling decisions in Nepal (with P. Mukherjee, N. Prakash, N. Prakash, and S. Sabharwal)
- Globalization and the Persistence of Forced Labor and Child Labor published in K.A. Elliott (ed.), Handbook of Globalization and Labor Standards, Edward Elgar, 2022
- Child Labor and Economic Development (with C. Theoharides) published in K. F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human resources, and Population Economics, Springer Nature, 2021
- Advancing the Agency of Adolescent Girls (with B. Feigenberg and J. Leight) published in Review of Economics and Statistics (2021)
- Thoughts (with Jacobus de Hoop) on COVID-19 & Child Labor
- Summary of recent research on empowering adolescent girls
- Summary of recent research on sustainable livelihood programs and child labor
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