Sadana D., "Effects of Early Childhood Exposure to Pollution on Crime: Evidence from 1970 Clean Air Act", Environmental and Resource Economics, September, 2022
Behera S., Sadana D., Does College Football Ranking Impact School Outcomes? An Empirical Analysis using Google Trends
Many papers in the past literature provide evidence on the impact of athletic performance on various school outcomes. This paper uses the weekly college football poll by the organization Associated Press (AP), to investigate the effect of a college team ranked in top 25 on various school outcomes such as revenues and expenses of school, coaches’ salary and enrollment. The college football poll also known as AP poll conducts weekly voting to assign the teams certain points based on which these team are ranked. The results are twofold: First, by exploiting the discontinuity arising due to the points of 25th ranked versus 26th ranked team, we verify the visibility of a school using Google trends. And second, the results provide evidence of the impact of this visibility of being in top 25 on positive school outcomes.
In this paper, we study the role of peoples’ attitudes on their labor market behavior. Focusing within a household, we estimate how one’s labor market decisions are dependent on their partner’s labor market outcomes, and how these decisions are driven by their culture component. Historically, man has been associated as the primary earner in a family. We argue that culture might play a role in determining a person’s labor market outcomes as it induces an aversion to the situation of when the wife earns more than the husband. We find that husbands increase their participation in the labor market if their wives earn more and this effect is even more prominent if they are from a country where people have the traditional view that man should be the primary bread- winner for the family. However, wives do not exhibit any such behavior. We argue that this irregularity is explained by the role that culture plays on forming labor market decisions. This result is important as it might contribute to the explanation of the slowdown in the convergence of the gender gap in the recent past.
Donald Trump claimed that the free trade agreement with Korea (KORUS FTA) was a horrible deal because the U.S. trade deficit increased substantially after the agreement went into effect in March 2012. However, similar deteriorations occurred during the same period in the U.S. trade balances with most other major trading partners, even though none of them had an FTA with the U.S. We investigate the causal effects of the KORUS FTA on the trade account balance between the U.S. and Korea via the difference-in-differences approach. Our empirical analysis provides strong evidence in favor of Trump's claim, controlling for potential impacts of economic fluctuations over time.
Banerjee T., Sadana D., Sengupta A., Economic Analysis of Mosquito-Borne Diseases in the US
Mosquito-Borne Diseases (such as Zika virus, Dengue, West Nile Virus, Chikungunya, and Yellow fever) are those spread by the bite of an infected mosquito. They pose a significant threat in the US, because they are spreading at an alarming rate especially due to the rise in the international travels and trade. The total number of reported cases of MBDs increased from 4,858 in 2004 to 47,461 in 2016. According to the CDC, there is a need for critical prevention and control capacities to deal with MBDs in the US. To determine how much should be invested in the prevention and control of these diseases, it is important to quantify the costs and economic burden associated with MBDs in the US. In this paper we do a comprehensive analysis of the economic burden of MBDs in the US with the recent data. In particular, we use patient level data to determine the medical and non-medical costs of MBDs like cost of health care, length of stay, and costs incurred by government agencies.
Behera S., Sadana D., Impact of FMLA on Future Outcomes of Children
Sadana D., The Effect of Import Competition in the United States on Parental Child Care
Behera S., Sadana D., The Effect of Affordable Care Act Medical Expansion on Healthcare Utilization