Bruce Sacerdote

Bruce Sacerdote is the Richard S. Braddock 1963 Professor in Economics within Business & Economics at Dartmouth College. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1997 as a Jacob K. Javits Fellow with National Science Foundation funding for thesis research. Sacerdote received his B.A. in Economics with high honors from Dartmouth College in 1990, serving as class salutatorian, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Rufus Choate Scholar in the top 5% of his class, and National Merit Scholar. He joined the Dartmouth Department of Economics as Assistant Professor in 1998, received tenure in 2003, was promoted to full Professor in 2005, and appointed Richard S. Braddock 1963 Professor that year. Since 1999, he has been a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Children and Economics of Education programs. Earlier roles include Research Assistant building crime databases and Project Coordinator for the Lottery Winner Survey at Harvard.

Sacerdote's research uses detailed data to understand why children and youth turn out the way they do, focusing on peer effects, economics of education, labor markets, determinants of college going, nature and nurture studies, and economics of crime. He studies student choices about college attendance and policy maker influences on that process. He teaches Advanced Topics in Finance, Money and Banking, and a senior seminar in finance. Key publications include "Peer Effects With Random Assignment: Results for Dartmouth Roommates" (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001); "How Do Friendships Form?" (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006); "How Large Are The Effects From Changes In Family Environment? A Study of Korean American Adoptees" (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007); "Colonialism and Modern Income: Islands As Natural Experiments" (Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009); "Katrina's Children: Evidence on the Structure of Peer Effects from Hurricane Evacuees" (American Economic Review, 2012); "When the Saints Come Marching In: Effects of Katrina Evacuees on Schools, Student Performance and Crime" (American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012); "From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Importance of Endogenous Peer Group Formation" (Econometrica, 2013); "How Much Would US Style Fiscal Integration Buffer European Unemployment and Income Shocks?" (American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2013); and "Fifty Years Of Growth In American Consumption, Income, and Wages" (NBER Working Paper, 2017). Sacerdote received Quarterly Journal of Economics Excellence in Refereeing Awards (2013-2016) and American Economic Review Excellence in Refereeing Award (2012). He is Associate Editor for the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Professional Email: bruce.sacerdote@dartmouth.edu