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Arnab K. Basu is an economist and professor at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. His primary research interests include labor markets in developing countries, economics of eco-social labeling, and the design of lab-in-the-field experiments to elicit behavioral preferences. His work spans topics related to the informal sector, minimum wage enforcement, labor contracts, employment guarantee schemes, child labor, human trafficking, and migration influenced by climate change and social networks. He is involved in behavioral economics, utilizing experiments to analyze altruism, intra-household bargaining power, and human capital investments in the context of disasters affecting countries such as Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, and Vietnam. Basu has participated in India-specific projects linking indoor air pollution to child mortality and examining the effects of Kerala's partial alcohol ban on intimate partner violence. He is a research fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, Germany, and has received various accolades for his work, including the Theodore W. Schultz Young Economist Prize from the International Association of Agricultural Economists and a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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