Arindrajit Dube
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
1030 Thompson Hall
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
Research Fellow: IZA
Biography
I am a labor economist by training, and focus
on labor, health, other applied micro topics, as well as empirical political
economy. I received my BA in Economics and MA 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. I am currently also a Research Fellow
at IZA.
Some of my
Current Research Projects
· Identifying effects of fiscal policy using spatial methods (with
Ethan Kaplan)
· Minimum wage changes in cross-state labor markets (commuting
zones) - how do they affect labor search behavior and cross border flows,
commuting patterns? (with Michael Reich and Sylvia
Allegretto)
· Effect of nurse organizing on patient outcomes (with Ethan
Kaplan)
Some of my past work includes studying the
effects of minimum wages using spatial discontinuities at state borders; how
outsourcing of labor services changed wages and benefits in service
occupations; whether shared compensation policies (profit sharing, gain
sharing) are complementary with shared decision making systems (e.g., Employee
Involvement committees); the transformation of retail labor market through the
entry of big box retailers like Wal-Mart; how trade and capital mobility
affects the labor market.
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.
“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.
“Cross-border
Spillover: U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico” with Oeindrila Dube and Omar David Garcia Ponce.
“Spatial Heterogeneity and Minimum Wages: Employment Estimates for Teens Using Cross-State Commuting Zones” with Michael Reich and Sylvia Allegretto.
“Firm Entry and
Wages: Impact of Wal-Mart Growth on Earnings Throughout the Retail Sector”
with T. William Lester and Barry Eidlin.
Published
articles and book chapters
“Coups, Corporation and Classified
Information” with Ethan Kaplan and Suresh Naidu. Quarterly Journal of
Economics, forthcoming.
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: Iss. 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, October 2010.
“Does
Outsourcing Reduce Wages in the Low-Wage Service Occupations? Evidence from Janitors
and Guards,” with Ethan Kaplan. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 2010.
"Complementarity of Shared
Compensation and Decision-Making Systems: Evidence from the American Labor
Market" with Richard Freeman, in Blasi, Kruse
and Freeman ed. Economics of Shared Capitalism (NBER Conference Volume: Chicago
Press, 2010).
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
“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.