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. [1] He was awarded the 2017 John Bates Clark Medal and elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. [2] [3] [4]
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 served as a co-editor of Econometrica from 2019 to 2023. [5]
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. [1] He was awarded the 2017 John Bates Clark Medal and elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. [2] [3] [4]
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 served as a co-editor of Econometrica from 2019 to 2023. [5]