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About me: I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma and Director of the Online MA in Econometrics program. I earned my Ph.D. in Economics from Syracuse University, specializing in labor and econometrics, after completing an M.S. in Quantitative Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute and a B.S. in Economics at the University of Calcutta. My research focuses on labor, development, and health economics, with an emphasis on econometric methods. Current projects examine vaccine policy, maternal and child health, and labor market outcomes. Alongside research, I am deeply committed to teaching and mentoring, having taught courses from undergraduate principles to Ph.D.-level econometrics and labor economics, and served on or chaired numerous dissertation committees.

American Economic Association Video Interview:  [link]

Working Papers

• 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]