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Heidi Williams Profile
Heidi L. Williams, Principal Investigator

Heidi Williams is a Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on how society can best support science and innovation, and how we can best ensure that science and innovation generate broad benefits to society. She has been an NBER affiliate since 2010.

Supported by The Agency Fund Donor Collaborative grant #SA23-04-06 and Carina Initiatives, Inc. grant #1507

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 2025, 17th Annual Feldstein Lecture, N. Gregory Mankiw," The Fiscal Future"
  • Feldstein Lecture
N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University, presented the 2025 Martin Feldstein...
 2025 Methods Lecture, Raj Chetty, "Uncovering Causal Mechanisms: Mediation Analysis and Surrogate Indices"
  • Methods Lectures
SlidesBackground materials on mediationImai, Kosuke, Dustin Tingley, and Teppei Yamamoto. (2013). “Experimental Designs...
2025 International Trade and Macroeconomics, "Panel on The Future of the Global Economy"
  • Panel Discussion
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant #G-2023-19633, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation grant #20251294...