Douglas Staiger is the John French Professor in Economics at Dartmouth and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received his BA from Williams College in 1984 and his PhD in economics from MIT
in 1990. Before joining the department in 1998, he was a faculty member at Stanford and Harvard. His research interests include the economics of health care, economics of education, and statistical methods. His current research investigates the quality of care in
hospitals, teacher effectiveness in elementary and secondary education, and labor markets for nurses and physicians. His research has been published in leading economics and medical journals, and has been funded by the National Institute of Health, the U.S.
Department of Education, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Staiger was the recipient of the Arrow Award for the best paper in health economics in 2007, and the Eugene Garfield Economic Impact of Medical and Health Research Award in 2008.
