Arindrajit (Arin) Dube is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known internationally for his empirical research on the effects of minimum wage policies.
[4][5] His work is focused on the economics of the labor market, including the role of imperfect competition, institutions, norms, and behavioral factors that affect wage setting and jobs.
He is one of the leading scholars of minimum wage effects on employment[7] and inequality,[8] and has also studied the role of fairness concerns in wage-setting, the nature and extent of competition in labor markets, and the role of firm wage policies in explaining inequality growth, and impact of unions in the labor market.
He has testified on the Minimum Wage before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions,[9] and written about this subject in the New York Times.
[12] He has also written on how the 2004 expiration of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban in the United States led to a surge in violence in Mexico,[13] and how top-secret coup authorizations by the CIA were capitalized into asset prices of highly exposed American corporations.