Research

Research Statement (download here)

• My research primarily lies in Industrial Organization, Labor Economics and Health Economics.  

Sharma, A., Tomic, A. & Fulton, L. (2024). Evaluating and Improving the Metropolitan Economic Freedom Index. Social Indicators Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-024-03324-9

Shanmugam, R., Fulton, L., Kruse, C. S., Beauvais, B., Betancourt, J., Pacheco, G., Pradhan, R., Sen, K., Ramamonjiarivelo, Z., & Sharma, A. (2024). The effect of COVID-19 on cancer incidences in the U.S. Heliyon, 10(7), e28804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e28804

Revise and Resubmit: Health Care Management Science. "The Predictive Factors of Hospital Bankruptcy: A Longitudinal Analysis" (co-authored with Brad Beauvais, Zo Ramamonjiarivelo, C. Scott Kruse, Ramalingam Shanmugam, Aleksandar Tomic, and Larry Fulton).

I am currently examining - 

1. Does Occupational Licensing Restrict Interstate Migration? Slides ; Paper

2. Non-Price competition amongst Electric Vehicles Charging stations. Slides ; Paper        

3. Do FinTech Firms Increase Refinancing of Home Loans?  Slides ; Paper 

4. Demand Estimation in the Indian Telecom Market.

Selected past Research Assistance -

1. Baseline survey summary statistics for Jaunpur Social Network Study (JSNS).   

   • Citation: Anukriti, S., Herrera-Almanza, C., & Karra, M. (2022). Bring a Friend: Strengthening Women’s Social Networks and Reproductive Autonomy in India. Policy Research Working Paper No. 10107. Development Economics, Development Research Group, World Bank. Retrieved from World Bank.

2. Data collection and processing for "Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars" NBER paper.

   • Citation: Dupas, P., Modestino, A. S., Niederle, M., Wolfers, J., & The Seminar Dynamics Collective. (2021). Gender and the dynamics of economics seminars (Working Paper No. 28494). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w28494 

Selected Discussions - 

1. Place-Based Industrial Policies, Labor Demand, and Inequality: Evidence from Job Postings in China (Qin Chen, Klint Mane*, Geunyong Park, Ande Shen) at International Atlantic Economic Conference (IAEC), 2021 

2. Air Quality and Internal Migration in the US (Protika Bhattacharjee) at Southern Economic Association (SEA) Annual Meeting, 2021