Arindrajit Dube

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.

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