Dartmouth College

Department of Economics

Eric V. Edmonds

Eric Edmonds joined the faculty at Dartmouth in 1999.  He is an Associate Professor of Economics and Chair of International Studies.  He built the specialization in development economics within the economics major and currently teaches its culminating experience, Economics 44.   Edmonds is Director of the Child Labor Network  at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an associate editor at Economic Development and Cultural Change.  He serves on advisory panels for U.S. Agricultural Secretary Vilsack, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Child Labor, Force Labor, and Human Trafficking,  the International Labor Organization’s International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor and Understanding Children’s Work Project, and the GoodWeave Foundation.  In the past, he has served as an advisor on child labor related issues to the International Labor Organization, the OECD, Rugmark, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of State, UNICEF, and the World Bank.  His research interests include child time allocation, human capital accumulation, labor supply, and migration.  Born in Columbus OH in 1971, he graduated from the University of Chicago in 1993 and received his economics PhD from Princeton in 1999.  He has two daughters and is married to Nina Pavcnik, also in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College.

 

6106 Rockefeller Center, Room 308

Department of Economics

Dartmouth College

Hanover, NH 03755 USA

For more information:

Phone: 603-646-2944

Fax: 603-646-2122

E-mail: Eric.V.Edmonds[at]dartmouth[dot]edu