Lalith Munasinghe

_ 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