Arindrajit Dube

Dube graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle in 1991. He received his BA in economics (with honors) and MA in international development policy from Stanford University in 1996. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 2003, and was a postdoctorate scholar at UC Berkeley prior to joining University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the brother of economist Oeindrila Dube.[6]

Dube has published dozens of works in labor economics, health economics, public finance, and political economy. He is one of the leading scholars of minimum wage effects on employment[7] and inequality,[8] and has also studied the role of fairness concerns in wage-setting, the nature and extent of competition in labor markets, and the role of firm wage policies in explaining inequality growth, and impact of unions in the labor market. He has testified on the Minimum Wage before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions,[9] and written about this subject in the New York Times.[10] He has studied employment patterns in all border counties in the U.S. that were affected by state-level minimum wages on one side of state border but not the other side.[3] Dube's other research includes the impact of outsourcing in service occupations on wages and inequality.[11] His research on imperfect competition (monopsony) in the labor market includes experimental evidence from online labor markets.[12] He has also written on how the 2004 expiration of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban in the United States led to a surge in violence in Mexico,[13] and how top-secret coup authorizations by the CIA were capitalized into asset prices of highly exposed American corporations.[14]