About

Sanjana Goswami

I am an Assistant Professor at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. I study the effects of international trade and technology on labor market outcomes. My research explores empirically the distributional consequences of trade and technology shocks on workers, firms, industries, and regions.

I received my Ph.D in Economics from University of California, Irvine in 2020. My dissertation was awarded the India EXIM Bank International Economic Research Annual Award for 2020.

Research Interests: International Trade, Technology Adoption, Labor Economics

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Teaching

Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (2020 ~)
Awarded the LKYSPP Dean's Commendation for Teaching Excellence Award 2024
Awarded the LKYSPP Annual Teaching Excellence Award 2023
Chair of the LKYSPP Faculty Teaching Excellence Committee (2025 - 2026)
Member of the LKYSPP Faculty Teaching Excellence Committee (2023 - 2025)
Co-Chair of the Master in Public Policy Program (2024 - 2025)
Co-Convenor of MPP Policy Analysis Exercise (2024 - 2025)
PP5525: Understanding Global Trade and Asian Trade Policy (Masters-level elective)
AY 2020/21, AY 2021/22, AY 2022/23, AY 2023/24, AY 2024/25, AY 2025/26
Classroom Games and Activities: Comparative Advantage | Intra-Industry Trade | Across Firms Within Industries | Outsourcing | Sweatshops and Trade
PP6707: Research Methods for Public Policy 2 (Ph.D core)
AY 2025/26
PP5110A: Policy Analysis Exercise (Master in Public Policy core)
AY 2023/24, AY 2024/25
PP5406: Methods and Tools for Public Policy 1 (Master in Public Policy core)
AY 2021/22, AY 2022/23, AY 2023/24
PP5801: Economic Analysis (Master in Public Administration core)
AY 2022/23
PP5906: International Economic Development (Master in International Affairs core)
AY 2020/21, AY 2021/22
Executive Education: International Business - Entry Strategy and Strategic Alliances
2022, 2023, 2024
PSA Field Trip
Field trip to Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) with AY 2022/23 PP5525 Global Trade class
Guest Lecture
Guest Lecture by Elizabeth Chelliah, Principal Trade Specialist at Ministry of Trade and Industry, Singapore with AY 2024/25 PP5525 Global Trade class
University of California Irvine (2014-2019) (Teaching Assistant)
Money and Banking
Winter 2015, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019
Corporate Governance
Winter 2019
Business Forecasting
Winter 2017
Basic Economics
Spring 2017
International Money
Winter 2016
Economics of International Business
Spring 2016
Managerial Economics
Fall 2014, Spring 2015

Research

Peer-reviewed Publications 1. U.S. Job Flows and the China Shock
with Brian Asquith, David Neumark, and Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez
Journal of International Economics, 118, 123-137, May 2019.

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Abstract: International trade exposure affects job flows along the intensive margin (from expansions and contractions of firms' employment) as well as along the extensive margin (from births and deaths of firms). This paper uses 1992–2011 employment data from U.S. establishments to construct job flows at both the industry and commuting-zone levels, and then estimates the impact of the ‘China shock’ on each job-flow type. Using the two most influential measures of Chinese exposure, we find that the China shock affects U.S. employment mainly through deaths of establishments. At the commuting-zone level, we find evidence of large job reallocation from the Chinese-competition exposed sector to the nonexposed sector. Moreover, we demonstrate that the job-flow effects of the China shock are fundamentally different from those of a more general adverse shock affecting the U.S. demand for domestic labor.
2. Chinese Import Exposure and U.S. Occupational Employment
with Marco del Angel and Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez
World Trade Evolution: Growth, Productivity and Employment, edited by L. Ing and M. Yu, London: Routledge, 2019.

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Abstract: Import competition has heterogenous impacts across occupations. This paper estimates the effects of import exposure from China on employment in U.S. occupations from 2002 to 2014. After obtaining occupation-specific measures of Chinese import exposure and sorting occupations in tertiles from low to high wage, from routine to non-routine, and from low to high education, we find that Chinese import competition reduces employment in lower-indexed occupations under each sorting criteria. The employment reduction in the lowest tertile of occupations occurs in Chinese-trade exposed and unexposed sectors, which suggests the existence of local labor market effects in the presence of a strong regional concentration of lower-indexed occupations.
Other publications 1. A Closer Look at Labor Productivity in Canada
with Jorge Alvarez, Yurani Arias Granada, and Kotaro Ishi, prepared for IMF Selected Issues Canada 2018 (IMF Country Report No. 18/222)
2. Asian Monetary Policy Forum 2023 -- Challenges for Monetary Policy in a World of Uncertainty
Special Feature A in Monetary Authority of Singapore's October 2023 Macroeconomic Review
Grants 1. Data-Driven Visual Analytics Platform: Exploring RCEP’s Impacts on ASEAN’s Trade in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Amidst Economic and Political Tensions
Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2 – 625,000 SGD
with Wei Luo and Dariusz Jacek Wojcik
2. Sustainable AI: Assessing the Global Environment Footprint of Data Centres
Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1
with Yuhao Ba

Curriculum Vitae

Contact

Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
#02-04 Li Ka Shing Building, 469B Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259771