Lalith Munasinghe
Professor of Economics at School of International and Public Affairs

Schools
- School of International and Public Affairs
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Biography
School of International and Public Affairs
_ Research Fields: _
Applied Microeconomics; Labor Markets; Climate Change
_ Publications: _
• “Wage Growth and the Theory of Turnover,” Journal of Labor Economics, Volume 18, Number 2, April 2000: 204-220
• “Globalization and the rate of Technological Progress: What Track and Field Records Show,” co-authored with Brendan O’Flaherty and Stephan Danninger, Journal of Political Economy, Volume 109, Number 5, October 2001: 1132-1149
• “A Hobo Syndrome? Mobility, Wages, and Job Turnover” with Karl Sigman, Labour Economics, Volume 11 (2004): 191-218
• “Specific Training Sometimes Cuts Wages and Always Cuts Turnover,” with Brendan O’Flaherty, Journal of Labor Economics, Volume 23, Number 2, April 2004
• “Expectations Matter: Job Prospects and Turnover Dynamics,” Labour Economics, Volume 13, Issue 5, (October 2006): 589-609
• “Why Do Dancers’ Smoke? Smoking, Time Preference, and Wage Dynamics,” with Nachum Sicherman, Eastern Economic Journal, Volume 32 (2006): 595-616
• “Gender Gap in Wage Returns to Job Tenure and Experience,” with Tania Reif and Alice Henriques, Labour Economics, Volume 15, Issue 6, (December 2008): 1296-1316
• “Climate Change: A New Metric to Measure Changes in the Frequency of Extreme Temperatures using Record Data,” with Tackseung Jun and David Rind, Climatic Change, December 10, 2011
Education
- PhD, MPhil, MA in Economics, Columbia University
- BA, Honors, Cambridge University
- BA, Magna Cum Laude, Princeton University
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