Neeraj Kaushal

Dr. Kaushal is co-director of the development core at Columbia Population Research Center, where she also co-directs the Immigration/Migration Research Program. She is a labor and health economist and conducts research on immigration and social policy. Her current research includes: labor market and health impacts of foreign-trained physicians; how Affordable Care Act affected the health of immigrant families; cross-national research on immigration in the United States and Canada; trends in welfare use among immigrants and US-born populations; international student mobility; effects of local enforcement policies and state Dream Acts on Mexicans in the US; effect of Syrian refugee crisis on electoral preferences in Turkey, and long- term impact of tribal resettlement in India. Dr. Kaushal is the author of Blaming Immigrants: Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement (Columbia University Press, 2019), in which she investigates the core causes of rising disaffection  towards  immigrants  globally  and  tests  common  complaints against immigration.   She also writes a monthly column in the Economic Times, India’s largest financial daily.