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
Beauvais, B., Ramamonjiarivelo, Z., Kruse, C. S., Fulton, L., Shanmugam, R., Sharma, A., & Tomic, A. (2026). The predictive factors of US hospital bankruptcy - a multi-model comparison. Health Care Management Science, 29, 8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10729-025-09750-6 Slides
Fulton, L., Sharma, A., Tomic, A., & Shanmugam, R. (2025). Modeling Ranking Concordance, Dispersion, and Tail Extremes with a Joint Copula Framework. AppliedMath, 5(4), 155. https://doi.org/10.3390/appliedmath5040155
Dupas, P., Handlan, A., Modestino, A. S., Niederle, M., Sere, M., Sheng, H., Wolfers, J., & Seminar Dynamics Collective (Sharma, A., named co-author). (2026). Gender Differences in Economics Seminars. American Economic Review, 116(2), 749-789. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20241718
I am currently examining -
Does Occupational Licensing Restrict Interstate Migration? Slides ; Paper
Non-Price competition amongst Electric Vehicles Charging stations. Slides ; Paper
Do FinTech Firms Increase Refinancing of Home Loans? Slides ; Paper
Demand Estimation in the Indian Telecom Market.
Selected past Research Assistance -
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.
Named co-author as a member of the Seminar Dynamics Collective - "Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars" NBER paper.
Collected and processed human-coded data on every presenter-audience interaction across seminars, job market talks and NBER Summer Institute sessions, measuring the number, tenor, tone and type of interruptions (Summer 2019). Now published in the American Economic Review - see publications above.
Selected Discussions -
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
Air Quality and Internal Migration in the US (Protika Bhattacharjee) at Southern Economic Association (SEA) Annual Meeting, 2021