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Economics Department Faculty

Gordon Dahl

Associate Professor of Economics
Office: Harkness 214
Phone: (585) 275-4081
Email: dahl@troi.cc.rochester.edu

Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, 1998

Curriculum Vita

Personal Webpage

Course Webpages:

• ECO 207 - Intermediate Microeconomics
• ECO 231 - Econometrics
• ECO 501 - Graduate Labor

Research Interests: Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics

Selected Papers and Publications:
(Available for download from http://troi.cc.rochester.edu/~dahl/)

• "The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit" (with Lance Lochner, University of Western Ontario), revise and resubmit, American Economic Review.
• "The Demand for Sons," (with Enrico Moretti, University of California at Berkeley), under review.
• "Strategic Bargaining Behavior, Self-Serving Biases, and the Role of Expert Agents: An Empirical Study of Final Offer Arbitration" (with Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University), under review.
• "Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of a Censored Regression Model" (with Shakeeb Khan, University of Rochester, and Songnian Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 100, No. 469, pp. 212-221, March 2005.
• "Mobility and the Return to Education: Testing a Roy Model with Multiple Markets," Econometrica, Vol. 70, No. 6, pp. 2367-2420, November 2002.
• "Does Where You Stand Depend on Where You Sit?: Tithing Donations and Self-Serving Beliefs," (with Michael Ransom, Brigham Young University), American Economic Review, Vol. 89, No. 4, pp. 703-727, September 1999.