Bruce Sacerdote is an American economist and the Richard S. Braddock 1963 Professor in Economics at Dartmouth College, where he "enjoy[s] working with detailed data to enhance our understanding of why children and youth turn out the way they do.
[He is] also involved in a series of studies to examine how students make choices about college going and how policy makers might influence that decision-making process.
"[1] Sacerdote's research focuses on child and youth outcomes, education, law and economics and causal inference.
[2] In addition to teaching an undergraduate seminar in finance, he is a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research,[3] an affiliated professor for the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty in Action Lab and an associate editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
[12] While at Dartmouth, Sacerdote was a member of Delta Beta chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity.