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Education

Employment

Research interests

Econometrics, labor economics, health economics, and development economics.

Publications (21)

20 refereed articles and 1 editor reviewed commentary. Author order as published. Full details, abstracts, and PDFs are on the Research page.

Labor and development economics

1. Pallab Ghosh, Firat Demir, Myongjin Kim, Ahmed Chaudhry, Junying Zhao. Stay healthy, stay employed: how flu vaccination might impact women's earnings. Applied Economics, 2026, 1-16.
2. Firat Demir, Pallab Ghosh, Zhengang Xu. The Effects of Female Political Participation on Missing Women: Evidence from the Egyptian Protests of 2011-2014. Journal of Comparative Economics, 2026, 54(1), 194-213.
3. Pallab Ghosh, Zexuan Liu. The Puzzle of Changes in Employment and Wages in Routine Task-intensive Occupations. Empirical Economics, 2023, 65(4), 1965-1980.
4. Firat Demir, Pallab Ghosh, Zexuan Liu. Effects of Motherhood Timing, Breastmilk Substitutes and Education on the Duration of Breastfeeding: Evidence from Egypt. World Development, 2020, 133, 105014.
5. Pallab Ghosh, Zexuan Liu. Coauthorship and the Gender Gap in Top Economics Journal Publications. Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27(7), 580-590.
6. Pallab Ghosh, Gary A. Hoover, Zexuan Liu. Do State Minimum Wages Affect the Incarceration Rate?. Southern Economic Journal, 2020, 86(3), 845-872.
7. Pallab Ghosh. The Short-Run Effects of the Great Recession on Crime. Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2018, 1(2-3), 92-111.
8. Pallab Ghosh, Jae Yoon Lee. Decomposition of Changes in Korean Wage Inequality, 1998-2007. Journal of Labor Research, 2016, 37(1), 1-28.
9. Pallab Ghosh. The Contribution of Human Capital Variables to Changes in the Wage Distribution Function. Labour Economics, 2014, 28, 58-69.

Econometrics

10. Pallab Ghosh. Box-Cox Power Transformation Unconditional Quantile Regressions With An Application on Wage Inequality. Journal of Applied Statistics, 2021, 48(16), 3086-3101.
11. Pallab Ghosh, Kevin Grier, Jaeho Kim. Heterogeneous Endogeneity. Statistical Papers, 2021, 62(2), 847-886.
12. Badi H. Baltagi, Pallab Ghosh. Partial Distributional Policy Effects Under Endogeneity. Sankhya B, 2019, 81(S1), 123-145.
13. Badi H. Baltagi, Pallab Ghosh. Replication of Unconditional Quantile Regressions by Firpo, Fortin and Lemieux (2009). Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32(1), 218-223.

Health economics and policy

14. Myongjin Kim, Firat Demir, Ahmed El Fatmaoui, Qi Ge, Pallab Ghosh, Junying Zhao. Vaccine Production and Innovation: Insights from Tort Reform and Medicare Expansion. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2025, 35(4), 578-605.
15. Junying Zhao, Rashmi Jaggad, James R. Kennedye, Pallab Ghosh, Kylie Stewart, Janis E. Campbell. Empirical Evidence and Conceptual Framework to Address the Indian Health Service Underfunding Challenge. Value in Health, 2026, 29(3), 403-412.
16. Junying Zhao, Ahmed El Fatmaoui, Mahla Shourian, Bethanie Lor, Pallab Ghosh. Power of Public Health Advice: Effectiveness and Spillover Effects of Federal Vaccine Recommendations. Public Health in Practice, 2025, 10, 100667.
17. Junying Zhao, Rashmi Jaggad, Ahmed El Fatmaoui, Pallab Ghosh. Did the Medicaid expansion improve immunization among U.S. pregnant women?. Preventive Medicine Reports, 2025, 58, 103214.
18. Junying Zhao, Rashmi Jaggad, Ying Zhang, Janis E. Campbell, Pallab Ghosh, James R. Kennedye, Tauqeer Ali. Multi-level Determinants of Vaccination of the American Indian and Alaska Native Population: A Comprehensive Overview. Frontiers in Public Health, 2025, 13, 1490286.
19. Pallab Ghosh, Ahmed Chaudhry, Janis E. Campbell, Myongjin Kim, Kyle Smith, Firat Demir, Junying Zhao. Impacts of the US CDC recommendation on human papillomavirus vaccine uptake, 2010-2015. Frontiers in Public Health, 2024, 12, 1464685.
20. Junying Zhao, Firat Demir, Pallab Ghosh, Austin Earley, Myongjin Kim. Reforming the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program for COVID-19 and Beyond: An Economic Perspective. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 2022, 9(1), lsac008.

Commentary

21. Junying Zhao, Rashmi Jaggad, Pallab Ghosh, James R. Kennedye, Kylie Stewart, Janis E. Campbell. The Indian Health Service Is Chronically Underfunded. Here Is How To Close The Gap. Health Affairs Forefront, 2025. Editor reviewed commentary, not a peer reviewed research article.

Manuscripts under review or revision

Revise and resubmit

1. Vaccine Hesitancy and Neonatal Mortality: The Life-Saving Power of Hepatitis B Immunization (with Ahmed El Fatmaoui, Junying Zhao)
2. Maternal Immunization, State Medicaid Expansion, and National ACA Interplay for Infant Mortality: A US Pooled Cross-sectional Triple-difference Study (with Rashmi Jaggad, Junying Zhao)

Reject and resubmit

1. Unconditional Quantile Regressions Under Endogeneity

Under review

1. Echoes of Inequality: Gender Bias in Economics Coauthorship
2. The Relative Wage and Marriage after 2010: A Comment on Shenhav (2021) (with Mahla Shourian)
3. Does Computerization Affect Crime? (with Yao Yu, Gary Hoover)
4. Children Who Witness: Early Life Exposure to Unilateral Divorce Laws and the Likelihood of being a Victim of Intimate Partner Violence (with Mahla Shourian)
5. When the Marriage Market Fails: How Changes in Relative Wages Shape Childbearing Decisions (with Mahla Shourian)
6. Shaken to the Core: The Effect of Nepal's 2015 Earthquake on Infant Death (with Ramesh Dulal)

Working papers

1. A Study on Long-Run Substitutability Between Men and Women

Work in progress

1. A Slow Burn: The Opioid Epidemic and the Rise in Teen Fertility
2. Prescription to Peril: OxyContin Penetration and Intimate Partner Homicide in the United States (with Mahla Shourian)
3. Revolution and Reproduction: How the Arab Spring Reshaped Marriage and Fertility in Egypt (with Yeganeh Karbalaei, Firat Demir)
4. Bt Cotton Adoption and Socioeconomic Outcomes: Evidence from India (with Vivek Moorthy)
5. Recentered Formula Instruments in Panel Data with Dynamic Treatment Exposure
6. Marijuana and Demand for Vaccination (with Myongjin Kim, Ahmed El Fatmaoui)
7. Does Maternal Stress During Pregnancy Affect Children's Mental Health in Adulthood? (with Myongjin Kim, Mieon Seong)
8. Environmental Causes of the Obesity Epidemic (with Tyler Ransom)
9. The SNAP Paradox: Does Food Assistance Encourage Teen Childbearing? (with Waleed Wasti, Judith Liu)
10. Escaping Violence or Trapped by It? Long Run Effects of Civil Conflict on International Migration in Nepal (with Ramesh Dulal)

Invited talks and conference presentations

• 2026American Economic Association Annual Meetings; Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings (forthcoming)
• 2025American Economic Association Annual Meetings; Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings; University of New Mexico
• 2024Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings
• 2023Society of Labor Economists Annual Meetings; AEA Summer Program at Howard University; Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings
• 2022American Economic Association Annual Meetings
• 2021Syracuse University; Rowan University
• 2020Western Economic Association Annual Meetings
• 2019American Economic Association Annual Meetings; Midwest Economic Association Annual Meetings
• 2018American Economic Association Annual Meetings; Oklahoma State University; IZA Conference on Gender and Family Economics; Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings
• 2017American Economic Association Annual Meetings; Society of Labor Economists
• 2016Royal Economic Society (Brighton, UK); Canadian Economic Association (Ottawa, Canada)
• 2015Society of Labor Economists and European Association of Labour Economists Joint Meetings (Montreal, Canada)
• 2014Syracuse University; University of Oklahoma
• 2013North American Econometric Society; European Association of Labour Economists (Turin, Italy); Eastern Economic Association
• 2012European Association of Labour Economists (Bonn, Germany); Eastern Economic Association

Awards and honors

• 2026Merrick Foundation Teaching Award, University of Oklahoma
• 2017Diversity in Tenure and Economics (DITE) Program
• 2015Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship, Department of Economics, University of Oklahoma
• 2014Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, Maxwell School, Syracuse University
• 2013Certificate in University Teaching, Syracuse University
• 2010Maxwell Dean Summer Fellowship, Syracuse University (also 2012 and 2013)
• 2008Albert Einstein Award for Innovation, Hewlett-Packard
• 2007Analyst Accolade Award, Hewlett-Packard

Funding and leave

• New Investigator Seed Grant, Presbyterian Health Foundation, $50,000, July 2022 to May 2023 (team member; principal investigator Junying Zhao)
• Sabbatical leave, University of Oklahoma, Fall 2023

Refereeing and professional service

54 referee reports for 21 journals, plus two proposal reviews for the National Science Foundation. Discussant at three American Economic Association sessions and chair of two Southern Economic Association sessions.

Journal of Labor Research (12); Empirical Economics (8); Labour Economics (5); Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy (3); Southern Economic Journal (3); World Development (3); Applied Economics (2); Economic Modelling (2); Journal of Econometrics (2); Journal of Population Economics (2); Papers in Regional Science (2); Applied Economics Letters; BMJ Public Health; Economic Inquiry; Economics Letters; Journal of Applied Econometrics; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Journal of Policy Analysis and Management; Review of Black Political Economy; Review of Economic Dynamics; The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy.

Departmental and university service

Teaching

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Master's

Undergraduate

Doctoral students

Chair or co-chair

Dissertation committees (18)

Undergraduate honors and master's research students

Michael O'Connor (2026), Anna Hyslop (2026), Henry Martin (2026), Catherine Boyd (2026), Braden Bortz (2025), Jennifer Dunbar (2024), Shubhashree Sathe (2024), Kaleb Colibert (2024), Brandy Herrera (2021), Scott McLean (2019), Claire Kvicala (2018), Hameed Ahmed (2016).