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Douglas O. Staiger is the John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College. He holds affiliations with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. His research focuses on health economics, labor economics, and the economics of education, with an emphasis on statistical methodologies.
Staiger earned his B.A. from Williams College (1984) and his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT (1990). His work has been featured in top journals like the American Economic Review, JAMA, and the New England Journal of Medicine. Key research areas include teacher effectiveness, healthcare quality, nurse labor markets, and policy evaluation through randomized trials.
His notable awards include the Arrow Award for Health Economics (2007) and the Eugene Garfield Award (2008). Staiger co-founded ArborMetrix, a healthcare analytics firm, and serves as an Associate Editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has been funded by entities like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
Staiger’s contributions span interdisciplinary projects, including studies on the impact of school choice on postsecondary outcomes, nurse staffing in neonatal care, and the role of physician spouses in rural healthcare access. His methodological innovations, such as instrumental variable techniques for survival analysis, bridge econometrics and clinical research.
