EDUCATION
September 1971 - December 1974: Cornell University. Received A.B. with Distinction in all Subjects' in January 1975. Major in economics.
January 1975 - September 1975: University of Wisconsin-Madison. Graduate courses in growth economics, money and banking.
September 1975 - September 1979: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Received Ph.D. from Department of Economics. Fields in international, development, labor, and comparative economics.
POST-DOCTORAL AND VISITING SCHOLAR/PROFESSOR AWARDS
June 1980 - August 1980: Institute for Research on Poverty, Madison, Wisconsin, Visiting Summer Scholar
August 1982 - August 1983: National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, National Research Council
September 1988 - August 1989: Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey. Postdoctoral Fellow
September 2003 – July 2004: Russell Sage Foundation, New York, NY, Visiting Scholar
January 2009 – May 2009: University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Distinguished Visiting Professor
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
September 1979 - May 1982: Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
May - July 1982: University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Business
August 1982 - August 1983: University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Economics.
September 1983 - August 1984: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
September 1984 - August 1985: Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Associate Professor, Department of Economics
September 1985 - August 1987: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lecturer, Department of Economics (1986-1987) and Lecturer, Regional Science Department (1985-1986)
September 1987 - August 1991: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Associate Professor, Department of Economics
September 1991 - December 1995: Columbia University, Teachers College, New York, NY.
Director, Institute for Urban and Minority Education
Associate Professor of Economics and Education Member, Board of Deans and Directors
September 1997 - July 1999: Columbia University, New York, New York
Director, Latino Studies Program, Columbia College
September 1991 – August 2002: Columbia University, Teachers College, New York, NY. Associate Professor of Economics and Education
January 1996 – December 2002: Columbia University, New York, NY
Director, Program in Economic Policy Management, School of International and Public Affairs, and Associate, Professor, Department of Economics
January 2005 - present: Columbia University, New York, NY
School of International and Public Affairs, Affiliate Professor of International and Public Affairs
September 2002 - present: Columbia University, Teachers College, New York, NY, Director, Program in Economics and Education, and Professor of Economics and Education
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARDS
September 1996 - September 2000: Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
January 2000 - December 2007: Associate Editor, Review of Development Economics, Blackwell Publishers, U.K.
January 2002 - Present: Member, Editorial Board, The Journal of Economic Policy Reform Routledge Publishers, U.K.
August 2004 - Present: Member, Board of Editors, Lynn Rienner Publishers Boulder, Colorado
January 2008 – Present: Member, Editorial Board, Open Demography Journal
Bentham Science Publishers, The Netherlands
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND HONORS
July 2006 - Presidential Medal of Friendship of the Republic of Mongolia, received from President Nambaryn Enkhbayar, Ulaan Baator, Mongolia.
September 2009 - Top Five Teaching Evaluation Award, received from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York
January 2010 - Academic Achievement Award, received from the American Society of Hispanic Economists, American Economic Association Meetings, Atlanta.
SELECTED RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
January 2000 - January 2003: Member, Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession, American Economic Association
January 2005 – January 2007: Teaching Fellow, Open Society Institute, Higher Education Support Program in Mongolia, National University of Mongolia, Ulan Bator.
January 2005 – Present: Member, International Advisory Board, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China
May 2007 - Present: Member, Board of Trustees, Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA), New York, New York
October 2008 - Present: Member, International Advisory Board, Royal Institute of Education Thimphu, Bhutan
November 2009 - Present: Research Coordinator, Center for Education and Economic Development Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey.
PUBLICATIONS
PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
1980 - “The Capital Market and Income Distribution in Yugoslavia,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 94, No. 1, February, 179-184.
1980 - "Optimal Output and the Theory of the Firm under Uncertainty," Economics Letters, Vol. 5, No. 3, December, 231-233.
1981 - "The Effects of Immigration in a Distorted Two-Sector Economy," Economic Inquiry, Vol. 19, No. 4, October, 626-639.
1981 - "The Price System vs. Rationing: An Extension," Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science, Vol. 12, No. 1, spring, 245-4.
1982 - "Nontraded Goods and the Pure Theory of International Trade with Equal Numbers of Goods and Factors," International Economic Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, June, 401-409.
1982 - "International Migration, Nontraded Goods and Economic Welfare in the Source Country," Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 11, No. 1, August, 81-90.
1983 - "The Service Sector, Monopolistic Competition and the Impact of Emigration," Economics Letters, Vol. 12, No.3, June, 327-332.
1983 - “Trade Theory, Distribution of Income, and Immigration," American Economic Review, Vol. 73, No. 2, May, 183-187.
1983 - "The Economics of the `To and Fro' Migrant: Some Welfare-Theoretical Considerations," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 85, No. 3, October, 403-413.
1984 - "International Migration, Nontraded Goods and Economic Welfare in a Two- Class Economy," Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 16, No. 3, December, 325-330.
1986 - "Can Border Industries Reduce Immigration to the U.S.?," American Economic Review, Vol. 76, No. 2, May, 263-268.
1986 - "Foreign Ownership, Nontraded Goods and the Effects of Terms of Trade Changes on National Welfare," Economics Letters, Vol. 20, No. 4, July, 367-371.
1986 - "International Migration, Remittances and Economic Welfare in the Source Country," Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3, October,3-19.
1986 - "The Short-Run Economic Effects of Immigration: Some General Equilibrium Simulations," in William G. Vogt and Marvin H. Mickle, eds., Modeling and Simulation, Vol. 17, Instrument Society of America, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 215- 222.
1987 - "Foreign Capital and the Contractionary Impact of Currency Devaluation, with an Application to Jamaica,” Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 26, No. 1, June, 1-15 (with Luca Barbone).
1987 - "Is There a Brain Drain of Puerto Ricans to the U.S.?," Puerto Rico Business Review, Vol. 12, No. 7, July, 1-5.
1987 - "Modeling Capital Flight from Latin America: A Portfolio Balance Approach," in William G. Vogt and Marvin H. Mickle, eds., Modeling and Simulation, Vol. 18, Instrument Society of America, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 153-159.
1988 - "Monopolistic Competition, Economies of Scale, and Agglomeration Economies in Consumption and Production," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 18, No. 1, February, 125-153.
1988 - "Agglomeration and Heterogeneity in Space: An Introduction," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 18, No. 1 February, 1-5. (With Masahisa Fujita)
1988 - "Modeling Urban Agglomeration: Producer Services, Linkage Externalities and Specialization Economies, in William G. Vogt and Marvin H. Mickle, eds., Modeling and Simulation, Vol. 19, Instrument Society of America, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1988, 113-119.
1989 - "The Impact of International Migration on Real Wages: Another Look," Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 31, No. 1, July, 185-192.
1989 - "International Migration and Real Wages: A Resolution Note," Journal of Development Economics, Vol.31, No.1, July, 193-94. (With M.G. Quibria)
1989 - "The Characteristics of Recent Puerto Rican Migrants: Some Further Evidence," Migration World, Vol. 17, No. 2, October, 7-13.
1990 - "Literacy Skills and the Wages of Young Black and White Males in the U.S.," Economics Letters, Vol. 32, April, 377-382.
1990 - "The Effects of Direct Foreign Investment in the Presence of Increasing Returns Due to Specialization," Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 34, No. 1, November, 287-307. (With Luis A. Rivera-Batiz)
1990 - "English Language Proficiency and the Economic Progress of Immigrants," Economics Letters, Vol. 34, No. 2, November, 295-300.
1991 - "The Economic Status of Racial/Ethnic Minorities Within the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area," in Janice F. Madden and William Stull, eds., The Distribution of Income Within the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 113-127.
1991 - "Substitution and Complementarity between Immigrant and Native Labor in the United States," in F. Rivera-Batiz, S. Sechzer and I. Gang, eds., U.S. Immigration Policy Reform in the 1980s: A Preliminary Assessment, Praeger Publishers, New York, 89-116. (With Selig L. Sechzer)
1991 - "The Effects of Literacy on the Earnings of Hispanics in the United States," in Emilio Meléndez, Clara Rodriguez and Janis Barry-Figueroa, eds., Hispanics in the Labor Force, Plenum Publishers, New York, New York, 53-75.
1992 - “Quantitative Literacy and the Likelihood of Employment Among Young Adults in the U.S.," Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 27, No. 2, Spring, 313-328.
1992 - "English Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Young Immigrants in U.S. Labor Markets," Policy Studies Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, 165-175.
1992 - "Europe 1992 and the Liberalization of Direct Investment Flows: Services versus Manufacturing," International Economic Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 1992, 287-307. (With Luis A. Rivera-Batiz)
1993 - "European Regional Economic Integration: Introduction," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 23, July, 307-14. (With Ralph B. Ginsberg)
1994 - "Unemployment and Attitudes towards Foreigners in Germany," in Gunter Steinmann and Ralf Ulrich, eds., The Economics of Immigration in Germany, Springer - Verlag, Berlin, 121-154. (With Ira N. Gang)
1994 - "The Labor Market Effects of Immigration in the United States and Europe: Substitution vs. Complementarity," Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 7, No. 2, June, 157-175. (With Ira N. Gang)
1995 - “The Impact of Vocational Education on Racial and Ethnic Minorities,” ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education Digest, Number 108, July.
1995 - "Vocational Education, the General Equivalency Diploma and Urban Populations," Education and Urban Society, Vol. 27, No. 3, May, 313-327.
1995 - “Immigrants and Schools: The Case of the Big Apple,” Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, Fall, 84-89.
1996 - “Puerto Rican Migration to the United States in the 1980s,” Revista de Ciencias Sociales, New Series, No.1, 178-207. June. (With Carlos A. Santiago)
1996 - "The Economics of Technological Progress and Endogenous Growth in Open Economies," in Hans-Eckart Scharrer, ed. The Economics of High Technology Competition and Cooperation in Global Markets, Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Hamburg, 1996, 31-62.
1996 - "English Language Proficiency, Quantitative Skills, and the Economic Progress of Immigrants," in Harriet Orcutt Duleep and Phanindra V. Wunnava, eds., Immigrants and Immigration Policy: Individual Skills, Family Ties, and Group Identities, JAI Press, Greenwich, Conn., 57-77.
1998 - “Migration and the Labour Market: Regional and Sectoral Impacts in the U.S. and Latin America,” in Jean-Pierre Garson, ed., Migration, Free Trade and Regional Integration in North America, OECD, Paris, 121-133.
1999 - “Undocumented Workers in the Labor Market: An Analysis of the Earnings of Legal and Illegal Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.,” Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 12, No. 1, 91-116., February.
2000 - “Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America: Current Trends and Future Prospects,” in United Nations, Interregional Cooperation in Trade and Investment: Asia-Latin America, Bangkok: UNESCAP, 161-191.
2000 - “Underground on American Soil: Undocumented Workers and U.S. Immigration Policy,” Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 53, No. 2, 485-501.
2001 - “International Financial Liberalization, Capital Flows and Exchange Rate Regimes: An Introduction, Review of International Economics, Volume 9, No. 4, November. (With Luis A. Rivera-Batiz)
2001 - “International Financial Liberalization, Corruption and Economic Growth,” Review of International Economics, Vol. 9, No. 4, Nov., 723-733.
2001 - “The East Asian Crisis and the Anatomy of Emerging Market Disease,” in A. Lukauskas and Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz, eds., The Political Economy of the East Asian Crisis: Tigers in Distress, Edward Elgar Publishers, London, 31-73.
2001 - “The Political Economy of the East Asian Crisis: Introduction,” in Arvid Lukauskas and Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz, eds., The Political Economy of the East Asian Crisis and its Aftermath: Tigers in Distress, Edward Elgar Publishers, London, 2001, 1-27. (With Arvid Lukauskas)
2001 - “Illegal Immigrants in the U.S. Economy: A Comparative Analysis of Mexican and Non-Mexican Undocumented Workers,” in S. Djajic, ed., International Migration: Policy and Economic Impact, Routledge, London, 180-203.
2002 - “The International Migration Experience of Mexico: Socioeconomic Aspects,” in Ralph Rotte and Peter Stein, eds., Migration Policy and the Economy, Hanns-Seidel Foundation, Muenchen, Germany, 205-218.
2002 - “Democracy, Participation and Economic Development: Introduction,” Review of Development Economics, Vol. 6, No. 2, June, 135-150. (With Luis A. Rivera-Batiz)
2002 - “Democracy, Governance and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence,” Review of Development Economics, Vol. 6, No. 2, June, 225-247.
2002 - "The Labor Market Effects of Immigration in the United States and Europe: Substitution vs. Complementarity," in: Klaus F. Zimmermann and T. K. Bauer, eds., The Economics of Migration: The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham, U.K. Reprinted paper originally published in Journal of Population Economics. (With Ira N. Gang)
2003 - “The Impact of School-to-Work Programs on Minority Youth Employment and Student Outcomes,” in William J. Stull and Nicholas M. Sanders, ed., The School to Work Movement: Origins and Destinations, Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut, 169-188.
2004 - “Puerto Rican New Yorkers in the 1990s: A Demographic and Socioeconomic Profile,” in Gabriel Haslip-Viera, Angelo Falcon and Felix Matos Rodriguez, eds., Boricuas in Gotham: Puerto Ricans in the Making of Modern New York City, Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton, 107-129.
2004 - “Undocumented Workers in the Labor Market: An Analysis of the Earnings of Legal and Illegal Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.,” in Klaus F. Zimmermann and A. Constant, eds., How Labor Migrants Fare, Springer Verlag Publishers, Berlin, 307-332. Reprinted paper originally published in Journal of Population Economics.
2004 - “NewYorktitlan: The Socioeconomic Status of Mexican New Yorkers,” Regional Labor Review, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring/Summer, 33-45.
2005 - “Latino and Latina Poverty,” in S. Oboler and D. Gonzalez, eds., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas, Oxford University Press, NY.
2006 - “Education and Economic Development,” in Susan M. Collins, Barry Bosworth and Miguel Soto-Class, editors, Restoring Growth in Puerto Rico: Overview and Policy Options, Brookings, Washington, D.C., 43-53. (With Helen F. Ladd)
2006 - “Education and Economic Development in Puerto Rico,” in Susan M. Collins, Barry Bosworth and Miguel Soto-Class, editors, The Puerto Rican Economy: Restoring Growth, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 189-238. (With Helen F. Ladd)
2007 - “How Do Migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean Fare in U.S. Labor Markets?,” The World Economy, Vol. 30, No. 9: 1399-1429.
World Economy Paper Published 2007
2008 - “International Migration, the Brain Drain and Economic Development,” in Amitava Krishna Dutt and Jaime Ros, editors, International Handbook of Development Economics, Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham, U.K., 119-136.
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2009 - “Development and the World Economy,” in Kenneth A. Reinert and Ramkishen S. Rajan, eds., The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey., Volume 1, 318-332.
2010 - “Trade and the Globalization of International Labor Flows,” in Arvind Panagariya, Robert Stern and Gianni Zanini, eds., Handbook of Trade Policy for Development, Oxford University Press, New York, New York, forthcoming.
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2010 - “Trade, Poverty, Inequality and Gender,” in Arvind Panagariya, Robert Stern and Gianni Zanini, eds., Handbook of Trade Policy for Development, Oxford University Press, New York, New York, forthcoming.
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BOOKS
1985 - International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics, First Edition, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York. (With Luis A. Rivera-Batiz)
1991 - U.S. Immigration Policy Reform in the 1980s: A Preliminary Assessment, Praeger Publishers, New York. (Co-edited with Ira N. Gang and Selig L. Sechzer).
1994 - International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics, Second Edition, Prentice Hall Publishers, New Jersey. (With Luis A. Rivera-Batiz)
1994 - Reinventing Urban Education, IUME Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. (Editor)
1994 - Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Changing Reality, National Puerto Rican Coalition, Washington, D.C. (With Carlos A. Santiago)
1996 - Island Paradox: Puerto Rico in the 1990s, Russell Sage Foundation, New York. (With Carlos A. Santiago)
2001 - The Political Economy of the East Asian Crisis: Tigers in Distress, Edward Elgar Publishers, London. (Co-edited with Arvid Lukauskas)
2011 - Handbook of Immigration Economics, Oxford University Press, New York, in preparation.
EDITED JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
1988 - Agglomeration and Heterogeneity in Space, Special Issue of Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 18, No. 1, February. (Co-edited with Masahisa Fujita)
1992 - The European Economic Integration of 1992, Special Issue, International Economic Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring. (Co-edited with Luis A. Rivera-Batiz)
1993 - European Regional Economic Integration, Special Issue, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 23, July. (Co-edited with Ralph B. Ginsberg)
2001 - International Financial Liberalization, Capital Flows and Exchange Rate Regimes, Special Issue of Review of International Economics, Volume 9, No. 4, November. (Co-edited with Luis A. Rivera-Batiz)
2002 - Democracy, Participation and Economic Development, Special Issue of Review of Development Economics, Vol. 6, No. 2, June. (Co-edited with Luis A. Rivera-Batiz)
SELECTED WORKING PAPERS AND MONOGRAPHS
1984 - "Child Labor Patterns and Legislation in Relation to Fertility," in George J. Stolnitz, ed., Quantitative Approaches to Analyzing Socioeconomic Determinants of Third World Fertility Trends, The Futures Group.
1994 - "Bridging the Gender Gap: The Economic Status of Women in New York City, 1980 - 1990," Research Report 94-1, Institute for Urban and Minority Education, Teachers College, January.
1995 - “A School System at Risk: A Study of the Consequences of Overcrowding in New York City Public Schools,” New York City Citizen’s Commission on Planning for Enrollment Growth Research Report, New York. (With Lillian Marti).
1996 - “The Education of Immigrant Children: The Case of New York City,” International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship Working Paper No. 96-2, The New School University, August.
1997 - Dominican New Yorkers: A Socioeconomic Profile 1997, Dominican Research Monographs, Dominican Studies Institute, City College, City University of New York, November. (With Ramona Hernandez)
1998 - A Profile and Analysis of Students in Vocational Training: Literacy Skills, Demographics and Socioeconomic Characteristics, National Center for Research on Vocational Education, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley.
1999 - “Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives,” Institute for the Study of Labor IZA Discussion Paper No. 70, Bonn, Germany. November. (With Ira N. Gang, and Myeong-Su Yun)
2002 - “An Analysis of Sample Selection Bias in Cross-Country Growth Regressions,” Working Paper, Department of Economics, Columbia University, New York, January. (With Jayant Ray)
2002 - “Economic Strain, Ethnic Concentration and Attitudes towards Foreigners in the European Union,” Institute for the Study of Labor IZA Discussion paper No. 578, Bonn, Germany. September. (With Ira N. Gang, and Myeong-Su Yun)
2002 - “The Socioeconomic Status of Hispanic New Yorkers: Current Trends and Future Prospects,” Research report, Pew Hispanic Research Center, Washington, D.C.
2003 - Dominicans in the United States: A Socioeconomic Profile 2000, Dominican Research Monographs, Dominican Studies Institute, City College, City University of New York, November. (With Ramona Hernandez)
2004 - “Color in the Tropics: Race and Economic Outcomes in the Island of Puerto Rico,” mimeo., Russell Sage Foundation, New York, March.
2008 - Educational Inequality and the Latino Population of the United States, Campaign for Educational Equity, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York, November.
2008 - Education as an Engine of Economic Development: Global Experiences and Prospects for El Salvador, Fundación Salvadoreña para el Desarrollo Económico y Social (FUSADES), San Salvador, El Salvador, November.
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RECENT PRESENTATIONS/PARTICIPATION AT CONFERENCES
2008 - Conference Organizer: “A Rising Tide: Economic and Political Relations between China and Latin America, “ Institute for Latin American Studies, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, February 18.
2008 - “Natural Resources, China and Latin America,” presentation at the conference: A Rising Tide: Economic and Political Relations between China and Latin America, Institute for Latin American Studies, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, February 18.
2008 - “The Value of the Dollar in Foreign Exchange Markets,” presentation at the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, May 2.
2008 - “International Trade and Economic Growth,” presentation at the Second Columbia/World Bank Executive Trade Policy Conference, Picker Center, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, June 4.
2008 - “Economic and Financial Challenges Facing the European Economy,” presentation at the joint program of the Hochschule Neu-Ulm University, Germany and the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, New York, June 18.
2008 - “International Trade and Economic Development,” Lecture series presented at the Universidad Externado, Bogotá, Colombia, October 24-25.
2008 - “Education as an Engine of Economic Development: World Experiences and Prospects for El Salvador,” paper presented at the Conference on Five-Year Strategies for the Social Sector in El Salvador, Fundación Salvadoreña para el Desarrollo Económico y Social (FUSADES), San Salvador, El Salvador, November 13.
2008 - “The Global Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences for Developing Countries,” presentation at the Conference on The Global Financial Crisis and Implications for Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey, November 29.
2009 - “The Earnings of Undocumented Immigrants in the U.S. Border: A Comparative Analysis of the 1980s and the 2000s," paper presented at the American Economic Association Meetings, San Francisco, California, January 5.
2009 - “Managing Globalization: Trade, Finance, Investment and Growth,” presentation at the National Management Institute, Cairo, Egypt., May 12-14.
2009 - “Labor Markets and Safety Nets,” presentation at the conference on “Best Practices in Public Administration,” sponsored by The People’s Government of Guangdong Province, China, and the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, New York, August 15.
2010 - Discussant, Session on Migration Issues in Mexico and the U.S., American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Atlanta, January 4.
PROFESSIONAL REFEREEING AND REVIEWING
American Economic Review, American Educational Research Journal, Canadian Journal of Economics , Contemporary Policy Issues, Demography, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal Explorations in Economic History, European Economic Review, Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences;, International Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Johns Hopkins University Press, Irwin Publishers, Journal of Economic Studies, Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing Company, Lynne Rienner Publishing Company, NSF-Nato Postdoctoral fellowships in Science and Technology, National Research Council, Open Economies Review, Princeton University Press, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Development Economics, Review of International Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Teachers College Record, World Development.