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About me: My research interest includes Labor Economics, Econometrics, and other Applied Microeconomics fields such as Economics of Journal Publications, and Development Economics. My current research in Labor Economics focuses on causes and consequences of the trends of income inequality, and gender wage gap in the United States over the last three decades. My research on crime and incarceration examines how crime and incarceration rates affect the labor market outcomes of the minority groups in the United States.

My secondary research field is Econometrics, in which I focus on the issues related to endogeneity in conditional and unconditional quantile regression models. Also, I have been working on the decomposition method and semiparametric approaches to construct a counterfactual distribution function.

Recently, I have started working on the research area economics of journal publication, in which I am interested to investigate how quality coauthors and networking affect top ranked economics journal publications.

American Economic Association Video Interview: [link]

Honors

- Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from Maxwell School, Syracuse University (2014)

- Albert Einstein Award (the most prestigious award for innovation) from hp (2008)

Recent Publications

• Effects of Motherhood Timing, Breastmilk Substitutes and Education on the Duration of Breastfeeding: Evidence from Egypt with Firat Demir and Zexuan Liu. World Development, 2020. Vol 133, pages 1-14.. [link]

• Heterogeneous Endogeneity with Jaeho Kim and Kevin Grier. Forthcoming at Statistical Papers. [link]

• Box-Cox Unconditional Quantile Regressions With An Application on Wage Inequality. Forthcoming at Journal of Applied Statistic. [link]

• Do State Minimum Wages Affect Incarceration Rate? with Gary Hoover and Zexuan Liu. Forthcoming at Southern Economic Journal. [link]

• Coauthorship and the Gender Gap in Top Economics Journal Publications with Zexuan Liu. Forthcoming at Applied Economics Letters. [link]