Kusum Mundra Faculty Diversity Collaborative Peer Network profile

About

Kusum Mundra received her Ph.D in Economics from the University of California, Riverside and an M.A. from Delhi School of Economics, India. Her research interests are Applied Econometrics, Immigration and International Migration, Housing, Social Networks, Population Economics, Nonparametric and Semiparametric Panel Data Models. Her research has been published in International Migration Review, Demography, Empirical Economics, Education Economics, American Economic Review- Papers and Proceedings, Review of International Economics, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, International Trade Journal, Terrorism and Political Violence, the Handbook of Applied Econometrics and Statistical Inferences, and the Frontiers of Economics and Globalization – Migration and Culture. Dr. Mundra's research has been cited in various media outlets such as Washington Post, US News, NPR (Marketplace), Economist and The Conversation. Before joining Rutgers Dr. Mundra was an Assistant Professor at San Diego State University and worked in economic litigation consulting at NERA Economic Consulting

Current Work

Kusum Mundra is an Associate Professor and Graduate Director in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University Newark. She is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor at Bonn and is also a Fellow affiliated with Global Labor Organization. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Quantitative Economics.