Bruce Sacerdote

Professor of Economics
Richard S. Braddock 1963 Professor in Economics

Departments and Programs Economics Related Links http://www.dartmouth.edu/~bsacerdo/

Contact Information

Email: bruce.sacerdote@dartmouth.edu

Phone: 603-646-2121

Hinman Box: HB 6106

Education

• B.A. Dartmouth College; Ph.D. Harvard University

Areas of Expertise

• Child and youth outcomes; causal inference; labor economics; social aspects of economics; education and economics, law and economics

Selected Works

• Katrina’s Children: The Effects of Peers on Student Achievement and Behavior,with Scott Imberman and Adriana Kugler.
• Did the Stimulus Stimulate? Real Time Estimates of the Effects of the American Readjustment and Recovery Actwith James Feyrer.
• “Why Do Americans Work More than Europeans?”with A Alesina and E Glaeser, NBER , Macro Annual, (2005).
• Colonialism and Modern IncomeIslands As Natural Experimentswith James Feyrer. Review of Economics and Statistics May 2009, Vol. 91, No. 2, Pages 245-262 .

Current Projects

• From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Lucas Critique Meets Peer Effects with Scott Carrell and James West