Welcome to my home page. I am an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University, Newark.

My research interests are

• Applied Econometrics, Immigration and International Migration, Housing, Social Networks, Population Economics, Nonparametric and Semiparametric Panel Data Models

My current research focuses on

• the effect of immigrant networks on trade, labor market (earnings, unemployment duration, education-occupation mismatch), housing, and conflict

• Housing through COVID; immigrant, minority, and women homeownership and housing adequacy

• Earning of skilled immigrants and H-1B Program

• gender earnings gap – role of labor market intermittency

•  nonparametric and semiparametric panel data estimators

My Other Affiliate

• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Quantitative Economics Feb 2022 onwards
• Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn 2009 onwards
• Fellow, The GLO Labor Organization, 2017 onwards
• Faculty Mentor, Honors Living-Learning Community, Rutgers Newark Fall 2017- Spring 2018
• Affiliate Faculty, Global Urban Studies/Urban Systems PhD, Rutgers Newark
• Affiliate Faculty, Women and Gender Studies, Rutgers Newark