Eric Edmonds

Dartmouth College and IZA

Eric Edmonds is an Associate Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. 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. His research focuses on improving our empirical understanding of the reasons for the prevalence and persistence of child labor, illiteracy, and low levels of schooling attainment in low income countries. Edmonds received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University and a M.A. and B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago.