Arindrajit Dube

Arindrajit Dube is an associate professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts 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. Dube received his B.A. in Economics and M.A. in Development Policy from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the University of Massachusetts Amherst, 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. During the spring semester of 2014, Dube visited the economics department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.