Director, Graduate Studies, Economics

Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow, Economics

Professor, Economics

Applied Microeconomics, Public Economics, Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics

American Economic Association, 2025

Econometric Society, 2025

Blomquist, S., Kumar, A., Liang, C., & Newey, W. (In Press). (2024). Nonlinear budget set regressions in random utility models: Theory and application to taxable income. Journal of Econometrics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105859.

Kumar, A. & Liang, C. (2024). Labor Market Effects of Credit Constraints: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 16 (3) pp. 1-26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24149/wp1810r2.

Blomquist, S., Newey, W., Kumar, A., & Liang, C. (2021). On Bunching and Identification of the Taxable Income Elasticity. Journal of Political Economy. 129 (8) pp. 2320-2343. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/714446.

Kumar, A. & Liang, C. (2020). Estimating Taxable Income Responses with Elasticity Heterogeneity. Journal of Public Economics. 188 (104209). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104209.

Engelhardt, G. V., Gruber, J., & Kumar, A. (2022). Early Social Security Claiming and Old-Age Poverty: Evidence from the Introduction of the Social Security Early Entitlement Age. Journal of Human Resources. 57 (4) pp. 1079-1106. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.57.4.0119-9973R1.

Kumar, A. (2018). Do Restrictions on Home Equity Extraction Contribute to Lower Mortgage Defaults? Evidence from a Policy Discontinuity at the Texas Border. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 10 (1) pp. 268-97. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20140391.

Duca, J. V. & Kumar, A. (2014). Financial literacy and mortgage equity withdrawals. Journal of Urban Economics. 80 (March 2014) pp. 62-75. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2013.08.003.

Kumar, A. (2012). Nonparametric Estimation of the Impact of Taxes on Female Labor Supply. Journal of Applied Econometrics. 27 (3) pp. 415-439. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.1205.

Engelhardt, G. V. & Kumar, A. (2011). Pensions and Household Wealth Accumulation. Journal of Human Resources. 46 (1) pp. 203-236. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jhr.2011.0020.

Robertson, R., Kumar, A., & Dutkowsky, D. H. (2009). Purchasing Power Parity and aggregation bias for a developing country: The case of Mexico. Journal of Development Economics. 90 (2) pp. 237-243. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2008.11.009.

"Labor Market Effects of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act," Guest/Invited Speaker at Iowa State University, Ames, IA, November 2024.

"Did the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Create Jobs and Stimulate Growth?," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, May 2024.

Kumar, A. (2025). Labor Market Effects of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Blomquist, S., Kumar, A., & Newey, W. (2024). Panel Estimation of Taxable Income Elasticities with Heterogeneity and Endogenous Budget Sets. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.00633.

Kumar, A. (2024). Labor Market Effects of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5036945.

Visiting Professor, Economics, University of Iowa, 2023 - 2024

Economic Policy Advisor and Senior Economist/Research Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 2004 - 2024

Various Civil Service Positions, Indian Administrative Service (IAS), 1991 - 2004