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

• Gender and Minority Population

• Nonparametric and Semiparametric Panel Data

My current research focuses on

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

• immigrant, minority, and women homeownership and housing adequacy

• gender earnings gap – role of labor market intermittency

•  nonparametric and semiparametric panel estimators

Media coverage of my Research

• My work on 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

• Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn  2009 onwards

• Faculty Mentor, Honors Living-Learning Community, Rutgers Newark  Fall 2017- Spring 2018

• Associated Faculty, Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers Newark

• Affiliated Faculty, Women and Gender Studies, Rutgers Newark

• Associated Faculty, Peace and Conflict Studies, Rutgers Newark