Thursday, September 17, 2015
1:30 p.m.
McKinney Conference Room
Arindrajit Dube is an associate professor of economics at UMass Amherst. His work focuses on labor economics, health economics, public finance, and political economy. His core areas of research include minimum wage policies, fiscal policy, income inequality, health reform, and the economics of conflict. He received a BA in economics and MA in development policy from Stanford University, and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining UMass, he held a research economist position at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at University of California, Berkeley. He is also currently a research fellow at IZA.