Arindrajit Dube, a member of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth’s Research Advisory Board, is an associate professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is also a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor. Dube’s work focuses on labor economics, health economics, public finance, and political economy. Some of his current areas of research include minimum wage policies, effects of unions, and fairness concerns at the workplace.

Dube received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and Master of Arts in development policy from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining UMass, he held a research economist position at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at University of California, Berkeley.