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. healthpolicypodcast.com/episodes/chr...

Chris Snyder on FDA Drug Repurposing and Market Incentives Explained

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

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Research by Prof. Ethan Lewis and co-author Michael A. Clemens is the feature of this Research Highlights Article, "Winning the visa lottery" www.aeaweb.org/research/imm... via @aeajournals

Winning the visa lottery

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

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"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." www.highereddive.com/news/elite-c...

Elite colleges are returning to the SAT and ACT. Will others follow?

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.

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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. Read today's article to learn more:

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🆕 Should workers or managers decide who gets rewarded? Today on VoxDev, Namrata Kala (MIT) & Madeline McKelway (Dartmouth Economics) discuss the impact of an employee recognition programme in India: https://ow.ly/pa1650ZyP5E

Prof. Doug Irwin talks tariffs with Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

Watch Economist Douglas Irwin on Trump's New Tariff Push - 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 fo...

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Danny Blanchflower's research is cited here... fortune.com/2026/07/28/g...

The brutal math behind Gen Z's lonely weekends: $15 drinks are driving a generational 'spending hangover' | Fortune

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

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Econ profs Jim Feyrer, Paul Novosad, and Maddie McKelway are celebrated here. Congrats! 2025-26 Faculty Promotions and Dartmouth Awards fas.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/07...

2025-26 Faculty Promotions and Dartmouth Awards | Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Dean John Carey recognizes faculty members in the Arts and Sciences who were honored during the 2025-26 academic year.

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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.” sc.mp/vcwnl?utm_so...

Did Trump’s tariffs paint the US into an economic corner?

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

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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. economics.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/06...

The ‘Steady Hand’ of the Economics Department | Department of Economics

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.

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The Institute for Progress and the Market Shaping Accelerator, co-directed by #Dartmouth economist Christopher Snyder, launched the Atlas of Innovation on June 2. The Atlas, which traces back to a 2024 workshop at Dartmouth, provides a toolkit for funding mechanisms suited to innovation goals.

Julia Abbott ’26, "Do Violent Shocks Shift Migration Patterns? Educational Selection in Middle Eastern Immigration to the United States.” - Post shock immigration cohorts from MidEast are less educated, lower income, older, more female, and migration flows of children increase.

Felix C. Feldman ’26, "Trade Elasticities in the 21st Century: 
The Red Sea Crisis as a Natural Experiment in Altering Trade Distances.” - I find that modern trade is more resilient to trade disruption than in previous eras.

Josephine Lee ’26 "Trade Liberalization & Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement”- KORUS exposure was linked to lower local employ, weaker labor force attachment, and higher unemploy, with losses concentrtd among some wrkrs and spilling beyond dirctly exposed sectors.

Honors thesis Ethan K. Sun '26, “There Goes the Neighborhood: How Gun Violence Affects Housing Prices.” - Missouri's repeal of Permit-to-Purchase law raised gun deaths 15%, suicides 7%, homicides 28%, lowered house prices 6.1% ($14K). Each gun death per 100K cost $5.8K in value.

Honors thesis Fabiana Araujo Rincon ‘26, “Selective Contagion: Sovereign Credit Integration and Heterogeneous Shock Transmission in Emerging Equity and Derivative Markets.” - Shock in one Latin American country spreads through sovereign credit and equity. Some countries gain from neighbor's crisis.

Honors thesis Dylan G. Parikh ‘26, “Transmission of Firm-Level Demand Shocks to Stock Returns: Evidence from 10-K Text Analysis.” - Findings suggest a firm’s flexibility drives firm value exposure to demand shocks.

Honors thesis Cooper C. Hyldahl ‘26 “Rent Capitalization and Military Housing Compensation: Evidence from the FY2015 Basic Allowance for Housing Rollback.” - Rental growth slowed in garrison communities as landlords absorbed ~82% of the cut.

Honors thesis Joshua S. Wolfson '26, “Determinants of Public-to-Private Transitions: Evidence from Firm-Level Selection Patterns.” - My predicts which public firms get taken private. Out of sample, the firms flagged in the top 10% went private at 3× the average rate.

Honors thesis Luke R. Wisniewski '26, “Do States Know Best? The Impact of Every Student Succeeds on Achievement.” (Advisor Ethan Lewis) - I find that the rollback of policies which took place during ESSA does not cause as much harm as previous authors claim.

Honors thesis Boau L. Shepherd ‘26, “Policy Whiplash: Tariffs and Uncertainty Among Firms and Investors in 2025" - How firms and investors responded to Trump’s 2025 “Liberation Day” tariff announcements, subsequent revisions, and the uncertainty surrounding those discussions.

Honors thesis “Insurance Disruptions and Infant Health: Evidence from the 2023 Medicaid Unwinding” Harshith Yallampalli ’26. Affect on infant health, finding reduced prenatal care and worse birth outcomes, with larger impacts for Black mothers and mixed effects by education.

Honors thesis “Delayed Marriage, Limited Empowerment: Evidence from Nepal’s Child Marriage Reform.” Lauren Calabrese ’26. Nepal’s 2002 child marriage ban brought little improvement of women’s empowerment highlighting the limits of legal reform amid entrenched gender inequality.

Prof Liz Cascio says, “What we’re talking about in the U.S. is going from a situation where kids are citizens to being effectively undocumented. That is extreme.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

What Ireland and Germany Can Teach Us About Birthright Citizenship

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Prof. Doug Staiger speaks with NHPR about the Education Scorecard and how NH schools are performing. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026...

NH students score in the ‘middle of the pack’ for academic growth

The latest Education Scorecard looked at academic growth in reading and math nationwide from 2022 to 2025. On average in NH, reading and math performances have not returned to pre-pandemic levels.

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Doug Staiger is cited as a co-author of a new report from the Education Scorecard that describes widespread declines in student reading and math test scores across the U.S. over the last decade. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’

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New OpEd in the @wsj.com by Prof Chris Snyder and colleague Sarrin Chethik www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...

Opinion | You Can Teach an Old Drug New Tricks

Aspirin prevents heart attacks, and good policy could give other generic drugs a second life.

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Prof. Claudia Olivetti: Company leaders might not have the same incentive to offer generous paid parental leave because the labor market has loosened or there was little adoption of the parental leave offering. . www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Deloitte and Zoom’s trims to parental-leave benefits may hurt them in long run, experts say

The companies announced last week that they will be reducing parental leave and other benefits for employees starting next year

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Econ is looking for a new dept admin, someone to manage, oversee, and coordinate the administrative operations of the Dept and serve as a key advisor to the Chair and faculty on operational and financial matters... searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/853...

Arts & Sciences Department Administrator

To manage, oversee, and coordinate the administrative operations of the Department of Economics, including prioritizing multiple activities and deadlines. The Administrator serves as a key advisor to ...

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This Thursday, Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth College) will present the 35th Kuznets Memorial Lecture on trade policy and exchange rate reform. Join us March 26 at 4pm ET, in person or online, for @yaleegc.bsky.social's annual event: egc.yale.edu/events/simon...

From 2024 to 2026, the returns on Mr. Mullin’s stock purchases outperformed the market by 8 percent, according to Bruce Sacerdote, a Dartmouth economist who examined Mr. Mullin’s trades at the request of The Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/u...

How Trump’s Homeland Security Pick, a Prolific Investor, Got a Lot Wealthier in Congress

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