Arindrajit Dube is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a nonresident scholar at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor.
Dube’s work focuses on labor economics, health economics, public finance, and political economy. Some of his current areas of research include minimum wage policies, effects of unions, monopsony in the labor market, firm wage policies, and fairness concerns at the workplace.
Dube received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and Master of Arts in development policy from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.
Funded Research
Firm wage policies and inequality: Evidence using matched employer-employee data
Authored by Arindrajit Dube
The importance of an expanded U.S. Unemployment Insurance system during the coronavirus recession (opens in a new tab)
Blog MAR 31, 2020
By: Arindrajit Dube
Rebuilding U.S. labor market wage standards (opens in a new tab)
Blog FEB 18, 2020
By: Arindrajit Dube
Minimum wages and the distribution of family incomes in the United States (opens in a new tab)
Blog APR 26, 2017
By: Arindrajit Dube
Puerto Rico’s predicaments: Is its minimum wage the culprit? (opens in a new tab)
Blog AUG 13, 2015
By: Arindrajit Dube, Ben Zipperer
Reversing inequality at the bottom: The role of the minimum wage (opens in a new tab)
Blog SEP 1, 2014
By: Arindrajit Dube
Arindrajit Dube’s Working Papers
Power and Dignity in the Low-Wage Labor Market: Theory and Evidence from Wal-Mart Workers (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers DEC 14, 2022
By: Arindrajit Dube, Suresh Naidu, Adam D. Reich
Minimum wages and the distribution of family incomes (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers MAR 28, 2017
By: Arindrajit Dube
Credible research designs for minimum wage studies (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers AUG 17, 2016
By: Sylvia Allegretto, Arindrajit Dube, Michael Reich, Ben Zipperer
Pooling multiple case studies using synthetic controls: An application to minimum wage policies (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers MAR 1, 2016
By: Arindrajit Dube, Ben Zipperer
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