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Gunjan Sharma

Assistant Professor, Dept of Economics

Office: 228, Prof. Bldg

Office Hours: Tue 12.30-1.30, Wed 3.30-5 pm

Phone: 573-882-3161

Email: sharmag@missouri.edu

Address: 118 Professional Building,

909 University Avenue,

Columbia MO 65211.

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Hi! I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Columbia. My research interests lie in International Trade, Industrial organization, Development and Applied Microeconomics.  My current research deals with the impact of industrial deregulation and trade reforms on firm-level productivity, wage gaps and poverty.

I also teach International Economics at the University.

 

NEW!!! Working Paper (October 2008): Crime and Inequality in India (this version February 2009)

 

Abstract: We examine the relationship between crime and inequality in Indian districts in 1988 and 2004. We find that inequality increases most types of property and violent crime and that inequality within religious and caste groups drive this relationship. Our results are robust to district fixed effects as well as to controls for the costs and benefits of criminal activity. We then use geographically weighted regressions to estimate local models of the relationship between crime and inequality across Indian districts. Our results show a divergence in the magnitude and statistical significance of the inequality coefficient in global and local models. In addition, there exists substantial spatial variation in the correlation between both property and violent crime and inequality, which supports the need for spatial analysis. Global and local models reveal a weakening relationship between all types of crime and inequality in 2004 compared to 1988, which may be due to declining crime levels or inter-temporal variation in the underreporting of crime.

 

 

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