$15,000
Aggregate Costs of Workplace Sexual Harassment
2022
Nisha Chikhale is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and labor economics with a particular focus on issues related to inequality in the labor market and intergenerational mobility.
Her current projects investigate the aggregate consequences of sexual harassment in the workplace, as well as how parental access to credit markets impact their children’s future earnings.
She is a graduate student affiliate of UW-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty. Chikhale holds a B.A in economics and a B.A. in French language and literature from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Authored by Nisha Chikhale
Policy
Issue Brief: Household insecurity matters for U.S. macroeconomic stability (opens in a new tab)
Issue Briefs MAY 16, 2018
By: Nisha Chikhale
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Household Economic Security
Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement
Policy
New technologies, occupational tasks, and earnings inequality in the United States (opens in a new tab)
Blog MAY 1, 2018
By: Nisha Chikhale
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Policy
The effects of wealth taxation on wealth accumulation and wealth inequality (opens in a new tab)
Essays APR 2, 2018
By: Nisha Chikhale
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Taxation
Policy
Firms matter: Where you work is important to what you earn (opens in a new tab)
Essays FEB 1, 2018
By: Nisha Chikhale
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Policy
New data on the changing U.S. occupational structure (opens in a new tab)
Essays DEC 5, 2017
By: Nisha Chikhale
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Policy
Do Americans think we should tax wealth? (opens in a new tab)
Essays OCT 17, 2017
By: Nisha Chikhale
Taxation
Policy
Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit is worth exploring in the U.S. tax reform debate (opens in a new tab)
Essays SEP 21, 2017
By: Nisha Chikhale
Taxation
Policy
How would homebuyers respond to a less generous U.S. mortgage interest deduction? (opens in a new tab)
Essays AUG 30, 2017
By: Nisha Chikhale
Taxation
Policy
Preferential pass-through tax rates and the declining share of labor income in the United States (opens in a new tab)
Essays AUG 10, 2017
By: Nisha Chikhale
Taxation
Policy
A glance at pay inequities for African American women’s Equal Pay Day (opens in a new tab)
Essays JUL 31, 2017
By: Nisha Chikhale
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Policy
The importance of unemployment benefits for protecting against income drops (opens in a new tab)
Essays APR 25, 2017
By: Nisha Chikhale
Household Economic Security
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Policy
Should the U.S. tax deduction for charitable contributions be more equitable? (opens in a new tab)
Blog MAR 7, 2017
By: Nisha Chikhale
Taxation
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