Eric Edmonds is a

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and Professor of Economics at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

. His research focuses on

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and forced labor,

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, youth migration, and

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in developing countries with the purpose of improving policy in these areas. Edmonds is a research associate at the

National Bureau of Economic Research The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is an American private nonprofit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic c ...

, a Senior Fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, a research fellow at the

Institute for the Study of Labor The IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (german: Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit), until 2016 referred to as the Institute of the Study of Labor (IZA), is a private, independent economic research institute and academic network focused o ...

, and an Editor of World Bank Economic Review.

Education

Edmonds received his Ph.D. in Economics from

Princeton Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine ...

in 1999. He graduated

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with a B.A. in Economics from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

in 1993.

Research

Edmond's published research has received over 3,000 citations. His work includes a study published in the

Journal of Development Economics The ''Journal of Development Economics'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier. It was established in 1974 and is considered the top field journal in development economics. Its editor-in-chief from 1985 to 2003 was Pr ...

, which found a large increase in schooling attendance and a decline in total hours worked after families became eligible for fully anticipatable social pension income in South Africa; a detailed summary of the recent empirical literature on child labor including reasons for and consequences of child labor published in the Handbook of Development Economics; and a study on the effect of

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on child labor published in the

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, among many others. His current projects include a study of a debt-bondage system in Nepal, a project aiming to provide life-skills training to middle-school age girls in Rajasthan, and an evaluation of the government of the Philippines principal anti-child labor program.

Other professional activities

Edmonds is on the advisory panels for the

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, the International Labor Organization’s Understanding Children’s Work project, the

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Foundation, and the

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, Engineering, and Medicine. At Dartmouth, Edmonds created the

development economics Development economics is a branch of economics which deals with economic aspects of the development process in low- and middle- income countries. Its focus is not only on methods of promoting economic development, economic growth and structural ...

curriculum and is the faculty lead for the Human Development Initiative at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth.

Books

*''Child labor and the transition between school and work '' Bingley : Emerald, 2010.Worldcat
/ref> *''Child labor in transition in Vietnam''

Personal

Edmonds is married to economics professor

Nina Pavcnik Nina Pavcnik is the Niehaus Family Professor in International Studies for the Economics Department at Dartmouth College. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of international trade, development, and industrial organization with ...

References

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