Research

Research interests

• Economic development

• International migration

• Regional migration

• Institutional economics

• Political economy

Published work

2023

• Arif, Imran. and Nabamita Dutta, 2023. Legitimacy of government and governance. Journal of Institutional Economics, Accepted. (Supplementary Appendix A)

• Arif, Imran. 2023. Institutions and industry-level employment creation: An empirical analysis of the US metro-level data. Journal of Institutional Economics, 19, 868-892.

• Arif, Imran, and John W. Dawson. 2023. Pro-market institutions and labor market outcomes: A panel-data analysis of U.S. metropolitan areas. Contemporary Economic Policy, 41(4), 629-652.

2022

• Arif, I., Hoffer, A., Humphreys, B., & Style, M. 2022. New sports facilities do not drive migration between US cities. Economics of Governance. 23, 195-217.  [pdf]

• Arif, Imran. 2022. Educational attainment, corruption, and migration: An empirical analysis from a gravity model. Economic Modelling, 110: 105802. [pdf]

• Arif, Imran. 2022. Regional club convergence: Evidence from U.S. metropolitan-level data. Applied Economics, Volume 54, pages 4979-4990. [pdf]

2021

• Arif, Imran. 2021. Productive knowledge, economic sophistication, and labor share. World Development, volume 139, 105303. [pdf]

2020

• Arif, I., Hoffer, A., Stansel, D., & Lacombe, D. 2020. Economic freedom and migration: A metro area-level analysis. Southern Economic Journal, 87: 170– 190. 

• Arif, Imran. 2020. The determinants of international migration: Unbundling the role of political, economic, and social institutions. The World Economy. 43: 1699-1729.

2019

• Arif, Imran, and Joshua C. Hall. 2019. International flows of people and institutional change. European Journal of Political Economy. 58, 276-288.  [pdf]

• Arif, Imran. 2019. How tall are the paper walls? Barriers to international mobility and technology diffusion. Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy, 49(2): 1-19