I teach three courses at Dartmouth. Two of these courses – an introductory course in statistics (Economics 10, “Introduction to Statistical Methods”) and the culminating seminar in public economics (Economics 48/68, “Topics in Public Economics”) – I’ve taught for many years. These courses are “bookends” on the excellent research training that the Dartmouth Economics Department offers, taking undergraduates from the rudiments of statistical inference and research design to writing an original empirical research paper. In Winter 2021, I started teaching “The Economics of Governments and Public Policy” (Economics 38) – a reimagining of the course under the same number long taught by my esteemed colleague Bill Fischel. The course covers political economy and state and local government and takes a deep dive into K-12 education in the U.S. in application.
Between 2017-18 and 2020-21, I directed the Dartmouth Economic Research Scholars program, which provides additional mentoring and support to around 20 high-achieving Dartmouth undergraduates (per class) with the interest and a knack for economic research, starting as sophomores. As DERS Director, I helped match students with research opportunities, provided one-on-one and small-group instruction and mentoring, and organized public events to educate the broader student population about what economic research is and how students can be involved. The DERS program aims to deepen and improve the quality of student engagement in faculty research and the honors thesis program and to diversify the pipeline in academic economics. In recent years, students with whom I’ve worked as part of this program have received predoctoral fellowships at Northwestern, MIT, the University of Chicago, and Stanford, among other institutions.