Lalith Munasinghe

Title: Associate Professor

Office:  Room 4 Lehman Hall


Current Office Hours & Teaching Schedule

Phone: (212) 854-5652 fax: (212) 854-8947
email: lm25@columbia.edu

Education:

 AB  Philosophy, Princeton University, 1985
 MA  Economics, Cambridge University, U.K., 1987
 PhD  Economics, Columbia University, 1995

 Teaching Specialties:

Labor Economics
Microeconomics
Theories of Freedom

 Research Interests:

- Labor Economics
- Applied Micro Theory

 Major Publications:

 "A Hobo Syndrome?  Mobility, Wages, and Job Turnover," with Karl Sigman, Labour Economics, 2003 forthcoming

"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, Volumbe 109, No. 5, October 2001

"Wage Growth and the Theory of Turnover," Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 18, No. 2, April 2000