Provost Professor of Economics
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Welcome to my website. My work focuses on labor economics, along with health economics, public finance, and political economy. Current areas of research include wage inequality, the importance of labor market competition, minimum wage effects on employment and inequality, the role of fairness concerns at the workplace, the interplay of behavioral biases and labor market power, the impact of unemployment benefits, and the role of firm wage policies in explaining the growth in inequality. I have also conducted research on employer health mandates; unions and collective bargaining; outsourcing and sub-contracting; gun laws and violence; and capitalization of private information in stock prices.
Bio: I received my B.A. in Economics and M.A. in Development Policy from Stanford University, and my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. I have previously held positions of Visiting Professor at the MIT Department of Economics and Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. I am a research associate at the NBER, a research fellow at IZA, and a research affiliate of the MIT Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work.
My new book — The Wage Standard
What’s Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix It — out now from Dutton. Why wages stalled for most workers, why that wasn’t inevitable, and what we can do about it.
📍 Contact
Department of Economics
212 Crotty Hall
411–417 North Pleasant Street
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01002
📞 413-545-2012
✉️ adube at umass dot edu
Arindrajit Dube 