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Lalith Munasinghe
Associate Professor of Economics
Lalith Munasinghe, Associate Professor of Economics, joined the Barnard faculty in 1997. He teaches courses in labor economics, microeconomics, and theories of freedom.
Professor Munasinghe's research interests are in applied microeconomic theory and labor economics.
Selected Publications
"A Theory of Wage and Turnover Dynamics" (work in progress).
"Turnover Better Reflects Firm-Specific Training than Do Wages," with B. O'Flaherty (work in progress).
"Expectations Matter: Job Search, Matching, and Turnover" (work in progress).
"Why Do Dancers Smoke? Discount Rates, Career Choice, and Wage Growth," with N. Sicherman, NBER Working Paper 7542 (work in progress).
"Strategic Human Capital Investments: Analysis of Returns to Experience and Tenure across Gender," with T. Reif (work in progress).
"A Hobo Syndrome? Mobility, Wages, and Job Turnover," with K. Sigman, Labour Economics(2003).
"Globalization and the rate of Technological Progress: What track and Field Records Show," with B. O'Flaherty and S. Danninger, Journal of Political Economy Vol. 109, No. 5 (October 2001): 1132–1149.
"Wage Growth and the Theory of Turnover," Journal of Labor Economics Vol. 18, No. 2 (April 2000): 204–220.EDUCATION:
BA, Princeton University
BA, Cambridge University
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Labor economics