Arindrajit Dube

Portrait of Arindrajit Dube
Professor
212 Crotty Hall
545-2012
adube@econs.umass.edu

CV: 

PDF icon CV_Dube.pdf
arindube.com

Education: 

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

Professional Experience: 

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

Research Interests: 

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

Grants: 

  • 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

Selected Publications: 

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.