Welcome to my home page. I am an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University, Newark.
On Sabbatical for the Academic Year 2022-2023
My research interests are
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Applied Econometrics; Immigration; Housing; Nonparametric and Semiparametric Panel Data; Population Economics; Social Networks; Gender
My current research focuses on
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the effect of immigrant networks on trade, labor market (earnings, unemployment duration, education-occupation mismatch), housing, and conflict
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Housing through COVID; immigrant, minority, and women homeownership and housing adequacy
- Earning of skilled immigrants and H-1B Program
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gender earnings gap – role of labor market intermittency
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nonparametric and semiparametric panel estimators
Media coverage of my Research
- Housing Vulnerability through the Pandemic
- “COVID-19’s housing crisis hit many asians in the US hardest-but only after government aid began flowing” The Conversation March 2, 2023
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Immigrant Homeownership around the Great Recession
- “How Immigrants are Transforming the American Dream-and Real Estate Along with it” Realtor.com September 11,2017
- “Immigrants Closing Gap on Homeownership” National Public Radio (Marketplace) August 28, 2017
- “Why immigrants weathered the housing bust better than the U.S.-born population” Washington Post August 27, 2014
- “Report: Foreign Born Fared Housing Crisis Better” – US News August 25, 2014.
- “Immigrant Homeownership” National Association of Home Builders” Eye on Housing Blog August 11, 2014
- “Tower of Babel: Is there such a thing a skyscraper curse?” Economist March 28, 2015 (Skyscraper Height and the Business Cycle: Separating Myth from Reality” Applied Economics paper is cited)
My Other Affiliations
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Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn 2009 onwards
- Faculty Mentor, Honors Living-Learning Community, Rutgers Newark Fall 2017- Spring 2018
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Affiliated Faculty, Global Urban Studies, Rutgers Newark
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Affiliated Faculty, Women and Gender Studies, Rutgers Newark