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I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma, where I also serve as Director of the Online MA in Econometrics program. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Syracuse University in 2014, specializing in labor economics and econometrics. I hold an M.S. in Quantitative Economics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, and a B.S. in Economics from the University of Calcutta.

My research spans econometrics, labor economics, development economics, and health economics. I have developed new econometric methods, including unconditional quantile regression techniques under endogeneity and Box-Cox power transformation approaches, and applied them to questions of wage inequality, labor market discrimination, and public policy. My work has appeared in journals including the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Applied Statistics, Statistical Papers, World Development, the Journal of Comparative Economics, Labour Economics, Empirical Economics, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, the Southern Economic Journal, Value in Health, Health Affairs Forefront, and Frontiers in Public Health. My recent work focuses on vaccine policy, maternal and child health, and the funding of the Indian Health Service.

At OU, I direct the Online MA in Econometrics program and previously served as Director of Graduate Studies. I teach across the full curriculum, from Principles of Microeconomics to Ph.D. Econometrics and Ph.D. Labor Economics, along with master's courses in statistical analysis, labor economics, and econometrics for data science. I have chaired or co-chaired four Ph.D. dissertations and served on seventeen Ph.D. dissertation committees.

Awards and Honors

Diversity in Tenure and Economics (DITE) Program, 2017

Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship, Department of Economics, University of Oklahoma, 2015

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 2014

Certificate in University Teaching, Syracuse University, 2013

Maxwell Dean's Summer Fellowship, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 2010, 2012, and 2013

Albert Einstein Award for Innovation, Hewlett-Packard (HP), 2008

Analyst Accolade Award, Hewlett-Packard (HP), 2007

American Economic Association Video Interview: [link]

Recent Research

1. "The Effects of Political Participation on Missing Women: Evidence from the Egyptian Protests of 2011-2014" (with Firat Demir and Zhengang Xu), forthcoming, Journal of Comparative Economics.

2. "Vaccine Production and Innovation: Insights from Tort Reform and Medicare Expansion" (with Myongjin Kim, Firat Demir, Qi Ge, Ahmed El Fatmaoui, and Junying Zhao), forthcoming, Economics of Innovation and New Technology.

3. "Empirical Evidence and Conceptual Framework to Address the Indian Health Service Underfunding Challenge" (with Rashmi Jaggad and Junying Zhao), forthcoming, Value in Health.

4. "Multi-level Determinants of Vaccination of the American Indian and Alaska Native Population: A Comprehensive Overview" (with Junying Zhao, Rashmi Jaggad, Tauqeer Ali, Ying Zhang, and James Kennedy), Frontiers in Public Health, 2025.

5. "Impacts of the US CDC Recommendation on Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Uptake, 2010-2015" (with Ahmed Chaudhry, Janis Campbell, Myongjin Kim, Kyle Smith, Firat Demir, and Junying Zhao), Frontiers in Public Health, 2024.

6. "Vaccine Hesitancy and Neonatal Mortality: The Life-Saving Power of Hepatitis B Immunization" (with Ahmed El Fatmaoui and Junying Zhao), working paper, under review.