Dartmouth College

Department of Economics

Eric V. Edmonds

Eric Edmonds joined the faculty at Dartmouth in 1999.  Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Economics.  His research focuses on improving our empirical understanding of factors that influence child welfare in very low income countries.  He 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, a Research Fellow at IZA, and an associate editor at Economic Development and Cultural Change.  He is currently serving on Agriculture Secretary Vilsack’s Consultative Group to Eliminate the Use of Child Labor and Forced labor in Imported Agricultural Products and as a member of the Technical Advisory Group to the Multi-bilateral Program of Technical Cooperation on Building the Knowledge Base on the Design and Implementation of Impact Evaluation of Child Labor Interventions for the U.S. Department of Labor, International Labor Organization, and Understanding Children's Work.  In the past, he has served as an advisor on child labor related issues to the International Labor Organization, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of State, UNICEF, and the World Bank.  Edmonds received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University and a M.A. and B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago.

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