Eric Edmonds

Eric Edmonds is a Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College where he also serves as Department Chair. He is Co-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 created the curriculum in development economics, teaches Economics 24 and 64, and is the faculty lead for the Human Development Initiative.

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