Dahlia Remler
Creator of CausalLiteracy.com
Most policy economists focus on estimating how program X affects outcome Y. My research rarely does. My teaching often does. And through this website, I hope yours will too.
I’ve taken a winding road—dropping out of high school, studying engineering at UC Berkeley, moving on to a doctorate in physical chemistry at Oxford, and finally earning a PhD in economics at Harvard. I became a health economist and am now a professor at Baruch College, CUNY. I have published articles on many health economics topics. I’m especially proud of the poverty measure Sanders Korenman and I developed—one that includes both the need for health insurance and the value of benefits in meeting that need—and now a research series at the Census Bureau. Meanwhile, I have built a life in New York City with my husband Howard and enjoy taking modern dance classes.
I also spent more than 25 years teaching research methods and data analysis to practitioner master’s students and co-authoring a textbook with Gregg Van Ryzin. Those experiences led me to create this website and launch a movement for causal literacy.