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Arnab K. Basu is a Professor of Economics at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences. He holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University (1997), an MA from Delhi School of Economics (1990), and a BS from St. Xavier's College (1988). His research focuses on labor markets in developing countries, eco-social labeling, and field experiments. Key areas include informal sector dynamics, minimum wage enforcement, child labor, human trafficking, and behavioral preferences in rural households. He has conducted field experiments among coffee farmers in Colombia and cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire to study production decisions, labor supply, and human capital investments.
Basu is a Research Fellow at IZA (Bonn), a GLO Fellow, and has held visiting roles at the University of Oxford and the World Institute for Development Economics Research. Awards include the Theodore W. Schultz Young Economist Prize and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. His teaching includes courses on international trade (ECON 2300/AEM 2300) and macroeconomics (AEM 1300).
Research highlights include analyzing labor market dualism, wage fairness in subcontracted labor, and the impact of rural employment guarantee schemes. His work bridges theoretical models with empirical field data, addressing policy-relevant questions in development economics.
