Kusum Mundra

Kusum Mundra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University Newark. Her research interests are in the area of Applied Econometrics, Immigration, Housing, Population Economics, Social Networks. She has published in various economic journals including the International Migration Review, Demography, American Economic Review- Papers and Proceedings, Empirical Economics, 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. She is in the Editorial Board of Journal of Quantitative Economics. Dr. Mundra's research has been cited in various media outlets such as Washington Post, US News, NPR (Marketplace), Economist. She is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and a fellow at the Global Labor Organization (GLO). She received her Ph.D in Economics from the University of California, Riverside and an M.A. from Delhi School of Economics, India.