Suresh Naidu
Professor of International and Public Affairs and the Jack Wang and Echo Ren Professor of Economics
Personal Details
Focus areas: Economic effects of political transitions, economic history of slavery and labor institutions, international migration, economic applications of natural language processing
Suresh Naidu teaches economics, political economy and development.
Naidu previously served as a Harvard Academy Junior Scholar at Harvard University, and as an instructor in economics and political economy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Naidu holds a BMath from University of Waterloo, an MA in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Publications:
- “Recruitment Restrictions and Labor Markets: Evidence from the Post-Bellum U.S. South,” Journal of Labor Economics.
- “Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies” with Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Samuel Bowles, Tom Hertz, Adrian Bell, Jan Beise, Greg Clark, Ila Fazzio, Michael Gurven, Kim , Paul L. Hooper, William Irons, Hillard Kaplan, Donna Leonetti, Bobbi Low, Frank Marlowe, Richard McElreath, Suresh Naidu, David Nolin, Patrizio Piraino, Rob Quinlan, Eric Schniter, Rebecca Sear, Mary Shenk, Eric Alden Smith, Christopher von Rueden, and Polly Wiessner. Science Vol. 326. No. 5953 (October 30, 2009.) pp 682-688.
- “Occupational Choices: The Economic Determinants of Land Invasions” with Danny Hidalgo, Simeon Nichter, and Neal Richardson, Review of Economics and Statistics.
- “The Economic Impacts of a Citywide Minimum Wage” with Arin Dube and Michael Reich. Industrial and Labor Relations Review Vol. 60, No. 4 (July 2007), pp. 522-543.
Education
- PhD in Economics, University of California, Berkeley
- MA in Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- BMath, University of Waterloo
Research And Publications
In The Media
Suresh Naidu questions the notion that competition is the solution to injustices in the market.
Suresh Naidu argues that institutions like the minimum wage and unions, which limited employers from fully exercising their market power, have weakened substantially over time.
Suresh Naidu reflects on the movement on its 10th anniversary.
Alex Hertel Fernandez, Suresh Naidu, Patrick Youngblood, and Adam Reich outline a different way for scholarship to be of use: using modern quantitative social science to strengthen existing labor organizations.
A weekly series from SIPA, the Earth Institute, and the Mailman School of Public Health discusses the life-altering global crisis.