Arindrajit
Dube
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
1030 Thompson Hall
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
Email: adube (at) econs
(dot) umass (dot) edu
Research Fellow: IZA
Biography
My work focuses on labor economics, health
economics and political economy. My core areas of research include minimum wage
policies, fiscal policy, income inequality, health reform, and the economics of
conflict. I received my B.A. in Economics and M.A. in Development Policy from
Stanford University, and my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.
Prior to joining UMass, I held a Research Economist position at the Institute
for Research on Labor and Employment at University of California,
Berkeley.
Some
of my Current Research Projects
· “Determinants and Effects of Fiscal Stimulus – Findings from the
ARRA using Spatial Variation” with Ethan Kaplan.
· “Employment Reallocation
and Flows from Minimum Wages Using matched Employer-Employee Data” with Matthew
Freedman.
· “Minimum Wage Effects on Jobs and Commuting within Local Labor
Market” with Sylvia Allegretto and Michael Reich.
· “Do Graduated Driver License Laws Reduce Teen Employment?” with
Lynn Scholl and Michael Reich.
Working
papers
“Do Frictions
Matter in the Labor Market? Accessions, Separations and
Minimum Wage Effects” with T. William Lester and Michael Reich.
IZA Discussion
Paper
available here. Updated
version (April 2012) here.
Revision Requested, Journal of Labor Economics.
“The Labor Market Impact
of Employer Health Benefit Mandates: Evidence from San Francisco's Health Care
Security Ordinance” with Carrie H. Colla and William
H. Dow.
NBER Working Paper available here.
“Spatial Heterogeneity and Minimum Wages: Employment Estimates for Teens Using Cross-State Commuting Zones” with Michael Reich and Sylvia Allegretto.
“Employee
Replacement Costs”
with Eric Freeman and Michael Reich.
“Firm Entry and
Wages: Impact of Wal-Mart Growth on Earnings Throughout the Retail Sector”
with Barry Eidlin and T. William Lester.
Published
articles and book chapters
“Cross-border Spillover: U.S. Gun Laws and
Violence in Mexico” with Oeindrila
Dube and Omar David Garcia Ponce.
American Political
Science Review, forthcoming.
“San
Francisco's 'Pay Or Play' Employer Mandate Expanded Private Coverage By Local
Firms And A Public Care Program” with Carrie H. Colla
and William H. Dow. Health
Affairs, 2013 (Vol. 32, Issue 1).
“Coups, Corporation and Classified Information” with Ethan Kaplan and
Suresh Naidu. Quarterly Journal of
Economics, 2011 (Vol. 126, Issue 3).
NBER Working Paper available here. See Slate Article on
the Paper here.
“How Do Employers React to a Pay-or-Play
Mandate? Early Evidence from San Francisco" with Carrie H. Colla
and William Dow. Forum for Health Economics and Policy,
2011 (Vol. 14, Issue 2).
NBER Working Paper available here.
“Do
Minimum Wages Really Reduce Teen Employment? Accounting for Heterogeneity and
Selectivity in State Panel Data” with
Sylvia Allegretto and Michael Reich. Industrial
Relations, March 2011.
“Minimum Wage
Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties” with T. William Lester and Michael Reich. Review of Economics and
Statistics, 2010 (Vol.92, Issue 4).
“Does
Outsourcing Reduce Wages in the Low-Wage Service Occupations? Evidence from
Janitors and Guards,” with
Ethan Kaplan. Industrial
and Labor Relations Review, 2010 (Volume 63, Issue 2).
"Complementarity of Shared
Compensation and Decision-Making Systems: Evidence from the American Labor
Market" with Richard Freeman, Kruse,
Freeman, and Blasi, eds., Shared Capitalism at Work: Employee Stock
Ownership, Profit and Gain Sharing, and Broad-based Stock Options. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
NBER
Working Paper
available here.
“The economic
impacts of a citywide minimum wage” with Suresh Naidu and Michael Reich. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 2007.
“The Hidden Public Cost of
Low Wage Jobs in California” with Carol Zabin and Ken Jacobs, State of California Labor 2004,
University of California Institute for Labor and Employment, May 2004.
“Aggregate demand externalities
and labor supply decisions: Worker discouragement and market inefficiency,”
with Ethan Kaplan, Economics Letters,
September 1997.
Some
other writings
Testimony
on Minimum Wages for the Senate HELP Committee. March 14, 2013.
Occupy Wall Street and the Political Economy
of Inequality with Ethan Kaplan, Economists Voice, March 2012.
“A Public Option That Works”
Op-Ed in the New York Times
August 21, 2009
William H. Dow, Arindrajit Dube, and Carrie Hoverman
Colla
“Wal-Mart
and Job Quality – What Do We Know, and Should We Care?” with
Steve Wertheim, October 2005.
“Kids at
Risk: Declining Employer-Based Health Coverage in California and the United
States: A Crisis for Working Families,” with
Ken Jacobs, Sarah Muller, Bob Brownstein, and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins,
August 2005.
“Falling
Apart: How Adults are Faring in the Crisis of Job-Based Health Insurance in
California and the United States,” with
Ken Jacobs, Sarah Muller, Bob Brownstein, and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins,
June 2005.
“Hidden Cost of
Wal-Mart Jobs,” with Ken Jacobs, August
2004.
“Research
Brief: Productivity Impact of Health Care Reform in California,” 2003.
“2003 California
Establishment Survey: Preliminary Results on Employer Based Healthcare Reform,” with Michael Reich, 2003.
“Paid Family Leave in
California: An Analysis of Costs and Benefits,” with Ethan D. Kaplan, 2002.