Biography

Gordon B. Dahl is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. He is also an Affiliated Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics, the Area Director for Labor Economics for the CESifo Research Network, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Professor at the ifo Institute, a CESifo Research Fellow, a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a Research Fellow of the IZA Institute for the Study of Labor and a Fellow of the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. He previously was a faculty member at the University of Rochester and has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Princeton University, University of Copenhagen, University of Stockholm, University College London, Norwegian School of Economics and CESifo Munich. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and his B.A. from Brigham Young University.

Dahl is a labor economist whose research focuses on families, public policies and the labor market in both the U.S. and throughout Europe. His research spans a wide range of issues, including how family income affects child achievement, peer effects among coworkers and family members, the impact of incarceration on recidivism and employment, the early-life integration of immigrants, and intergenerational links in welfare use. His articles have appeared in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.