Dave Donaldson (economist)
Dave Donaldson | |
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Born | June 4, 1978 |
Nationality | Canadian |
Academic career | |
Institution | MIT NBER |
Field | International trade Economic Development Economic History Environmental Economics |
Alma mater | London School of Economics Trinity College, Oxford |
Doctoral advisor | Tim Besley Robin Burgess |
Awards | John Bates Clark Medal (2017) Fellow BREAD |
Dave Donaldson (born 4 June 1978) is a Canadian economist and a professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was awarded the 2017 John Bates Clark Medal and elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.
Academic career
Donaldson received a Masters in Physics from University of Oxford (Trinity College) in 2001, and a Diploma in 2002, an M.Sc. in 2003 and a Ph.D. in 2009, all in Economics from the London School of Economics. His research explores welfare and economic growth effects of market integration; broad impacts of reduced intra-national trade barriers; and how climate-change-effects-on-humans, as well as food security and famine risks may each be mediated by trade and specialization.
He serves as a co-editor of Econometrica from 2019 to 2023.
Selected publications
- Donaldson, Dave (2018). "Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure" (PDF). American Economic Review. 108 (4โ5): 899โ934. doi:10.1257/aer.20101199. hdl:1721.1/128506. S2CID 11950761.
- Donaldson, Dave; Hornbeck, Richard (2016). "Railroads and American Economic Growth: A 'Market Access' Approach". Quarterly Journal of Economics. 101 (7): 799โ858. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.397.3684. doi:10.1093/qje/qjw002. S2CID 7831109.
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Environmental economists
- Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
- Alumni of the London School of Economics
- Stanford University faculty
- MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty
- Fellows of the Econometric Society
- 21st-century Canadian economists
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences