Arindrajit Dube

• Ph.D. University of Chicago, Economics, 2003
• M.A. Stanford University, Development Policy Studies, 1996
• B.A. Stanford University, Economics - with Honors and Distinction, 1996

• Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Markets Law and Public Policy, Questrom School of Business, Boston University (2016-2017)
• Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2013-present)
• Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Spring 2014)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst (2010-2013)
• Research Fellow, IZA (2011-present)
• Research Economist, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California, Berkeley (2005-2009)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California Berkeley, 2003-2005

• Competition and wage setting in labor market
• Fairness concerns at workplace
• Minimum wage policies
• Fiscal policy and local multipliers
• Health care reform and employer mandates
• Impact of unionization

• Principal Investigator, Laura and John Arnold Foundation, 2016
• Principal Investigator, Russel Sage Foundation, 2015
• Principal Investigator, Institute for New Economic Thinking, 2010
• Co-Principal Investigator, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2008
• Principal Investigator, California Program on Access to Care, 2006
• Principal Investigator, Labor and Employment Research Fund, 2006

• Allegretto, Sylvia, Arindrajit Dube, Michael Reich and Ben Zipperer 2017. "Credible Research Designs for Minimum Wage Studies: Response to Neumark, Salas and Wascher." Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Forthcoming.
• Colla, Carrie, William Dow and Arindrajit Dube 2017. "The Labor Market Impact of Employer Health Benefit Mandates: Evidence from San Francisco’s Health Care Security Ordinance." Industrial Relations. 56,1:122-160.
• Dube, Arindrajit, Ethan Kaplan and Owen Thompson 2016. "Nurse Unions and Patient Outcomes." Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 69, 4: 803-833.
• Dube, Arindrajit, T. William Lester and Michael Reich 2016. "Wage Shocks, Employment Flows, and Labor Market Frictions." Journal of Labor Economics 34, 3: 663-704.
• Boone, Christopher, Arindrajit Dube and Ethan Kaplan 2014. "The Political Economy of Discretionary Spending: Evidence from the ARRA Stimulus Bill", Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Spring, 2014.
• Colla, Carrie, William Dow, Arindrajit Dube and Vicky Lovell 2014. "Early Responses to San Francisco’s Paid Sick Leave Policy." American Journal of Public Health 104, 12: 2453-2460.
• Dube, Arindrajit and Sanjay Reddy 2014. "Threat Effects and Trade: Wage Discipline through Product Market Competition." Journal of Globalization and Development 4, 2: 213-252.
• Dube, Arindrajit, Oeindrila Dube and Omar García Ponce 2013. "Cross Border Spillover: US Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico." American Political Science Review 107, 3: 397-417.
• Colla, Carrie, William Dow and Arindrajit Dube 2013. "Employer Mandate with Public Option Expands Public and Private Coverage in San Francisco Firms" Health Affairs 32, 1: 69-77.
• Dube Arindrajit, Ethan Kaplan and Suresh Naidu 2011. "Coups, corporations, and classified information." Quarterly Journal of Economics 126, 3: 1375-1409.
• Allegretto, Sylvia, Arindrajit Dube and Michael Reich 2011. "Do Minimum Wages Really Reduce Teen Employment? Accounting for Heterogeneity and Selectivity in State Panel Data." Industrial Relations 50, 5: 205-40.
• Colla, Carrie, William Dow and Arindrajit Dube 2011. "How do employers react to a pay-or-play mandate? Evidence from San Francisco" Forum for Health Economics and Policy 14, 2: Article 4.
• Dube, Arindrajit, William Lester and Michael Reich 2010. "Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties." Review of Economics and Statistics 92, 4: 945-64.
• Dube Arindrajit and Ethan Kaplan 2010. "Has Outsourcing Reduced Earnings of Low-Wage Service Workers?" Industrial and Labor Relations Review 63,2: 287-306.
• Dube, Arindrajit, Suresh Naidu and Michael Reich 2007. "The Economic Effects of a Citywide Minimum Wage." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 60, 4: 522-43.
• Dube, Arindrajit and Richard Freeman 2010. "Complementarity of Shared Compensation and Decision-Making Systems," in 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.

Associate Editor:
Industrial Relations

Ad-hoc Referee:
American Economic Review, American Economic Journal-Applied, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Industrial Relations, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Labor Research, Labour Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Social Science Quarterly Review.

Andy Barenberg, UMass Amherst, Current: Committee Chair
Doruk Cengiz, UMass Amherst, Current: Committee Chair
Avanti Mukherjee, UMass Amherst, Current: Committee Member
Simon Sturn, UMass Amherst, Current: Committee Chair
Thomas Herndon, UMass Amherst, Current: Committee Member
Anders Fremstad, UMass Amherst, 2015: Committee Member
Ben Zipperer, UMass Amherst, 2014: Committee Chair
Hyeon-Kyeong Kim, UMass Amherst, 2014: Committee Member
Josh Mason, UMass Amherst, 2014: Committee Member
Ken-Hou Lin, UMass Amherst, 2013: Committee Member (Outside Department)
Owen Thompson-Ferguson, UMass Amherst, 2013: Committee Co-Chair
Helen Scharber, UMass Amherst, 2010: Committee Member
Carrie Colla, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, 2008: Orals Committee Member

Instructor:
Undergraduate Labor Economics, UMass Amherst
Intermediate Microeconomics, UMass Amherst
Graduate Dissertation Workshop, UMass Amherst
Graduate Empirical Methods in Labor Economics, UMass Amherst
Graduate Applied Econometrics, UMass Amherst
Undergraduate Labor Economics, MIT
Graduate Labor Economics, MIT
Undergraduate Business Statistics, Boston University

Teaching Assistant:
Graduate Microeconomics, University of Chicago
Undergraduate Microeconomics, University of Chicago
Undergraduate Development Economics, Harvard University
Undergraduate Economics and Gender, Harvard University

2005: University of California, Berkeley, (Dept of Economics); Annual Conference for Labor and Employment Research Association; Center for American Progress; American Enterprise Institute.

2006: University of New Mexico, (Dept of Economics); University of California, Riverside (Dept of Economics); Institute of International Economic Studies, University of Stockholm (Sweden) ; Uppsala University (Sweden); Remnin University (China) Conference on Labor Standards.

2007: UC Berkeley (Department of Economics); UC Berkeley (Institute for Research on Labor and Employment); UC Labor Economics Workshop, 2007.

2008: MIT (Department of Economics); University of Lausanne (Department of Economics); IAB Nuremberg; Berlin School of Economics; UC Berkeley (Department of Economics).

2009: University of Toronto; University of Minnesota; University of Massachusetts-Amherst; University of Massachusetts-Boston; University of California Riverside; UC Labor Economics Workshop.

2010: Princeton University (Department of Economics); New School for Social Research (Department of Economics); Five-College Junior Faculty Workshop

2011: MIT (Department of Economics); UC Berkeley (Department of Economics); Society of Labor Economics Annual Meeting; NBER Summer Institute (Crime Working Group); Columbia University (Department of Economics); Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá (Department of Economics)

2012: MIT (Sloan); UC Berkeley (Institute for Research on Labor and Employment); Conference on Low Wage Work (Georgetown University); Cornell University (Department of Economics); Lehigh University (Department of Economics).

2013: Connecticut College; Labor Market Conference, Banco de Portugal.

2014: MIT (Department of Economics); NBER Summer Institute (Personnel Working Group); IZA/IFAU Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation (Uppsala); Hamilton Project; Washington Center for Equitable Growth; Building Human Capital and Economic Potential Conference (Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison); ILR Review Conference and Special Issue on “Work and Employment Relations in Health Care” (Rutgers University); Labor and Employment Research Association Annual meetings (Portland).

2015: ASSA Annual Meeting (Boston); UCL-LSE Conference on Low Pay (London); Brown University (Political Economy and Labor Seminar Series); AFL-CIO Work Scholars Conference; Keynote address at IAB International Workshop on Minimum Wage, Nuremberg; Dartmouth College panel discussion on minimum wage (Political Economy Project).

2016: AEA Annual Meeting (San Francisco); Royal Economic Society Annual Meeting (plenary on minimum wage); Boston University Economics Department Empirical Micro workshop; University of Zurich Empirical Micro seminar; Western Economic Association Annual Meeting (Portland).

2017: AEA Annual Meeting (Chicago); Boston University Questrom School of Business MPPL Seminar; SOLE Annual Meeting (Raleigh).

• Senate HELP Committee Hearing 2013. Presentation on minimum wage indexation.
• Connecticut State Legislature Briefing 2012. Presentation on minimum wage policies.
• Los Angeles Blue Ribbon Commission on Supermarkets, 2007. Presentation on the change in health coverage and healthcare utilization for grocery workers following the change in benefits in 2003.
• California State Legislative Briefing, 2005. Presentation on low-wage jobs.
• Central Valley Commission on Low-wage work, 2006. Presentation on the public costs of low-wage jobs.

• University of Chicago Graduate Fellowship Award (1997-2000)
• Phi Beta Kappa (1996)