Gordon B. Dahl is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. Prior to joining UC San Diego, he was a faculty member at the University of Rochester. He has held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1998 and his B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1993.

Dahl's research interests include Labor Economics and Applied Microeconomics. His articles have appeared in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Review of Economics Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Dahl is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Fellow of the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, and an Associate Editor of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 2008.