Andrea Velasquez, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, was awarded a Russell Sage Foundation Award . Andrea Velasquez and Duncan Thomas (Duke University) will examine the selectivity of Mexican immigrants and their socioeconomic integration, comparing those staying in the U.S. and those returning to Mexico. The research is co-funded...

Hani Mansour and Andrea Velásquez write about the adverse employment effects of Chinese import competition in Peru in VoxDev , a platform for economists, policymakers, practitioners, donors, the private sector, and others interested in development to discuss key policy issues and a collaboration among the Centre for Economic Policy Research,...

Chloe East, Associate Professor of Economics; Hani Mansour, Professor of Economics; and Andrea Velásquez, Associate Professor of Economics have recently published an article, "The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement," in the highly ranked Journal of Labor Economics . They study the labor market effects of Secure Communities, a police-based...

Chloe N. East, Assistant Professor in Economics, has a working paper out that is very relevant to debates related to work requirements for SNAP, The Effect of Means-Tested Transfers on Work: Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned SNAP Caseworkers .

Assistant Professors Chloe East and Barton Willage, from the Department of Economics, have been appointed Faculty Research Fellows at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). East was selected for the Program on Children group, and Willage for the Health Economics group. The NBER is the leading nonprofit economic research...

Assistant Professor of Economics Andrea Velasquez is a 2023-2024 awardee of The University of Chicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society . Each year, this award is given to a diverse range of interdisciplinary faculty research projects that address critical issues. The Neubauer Collegium is committed to the idea that...

Andrea Velásquez, Assistant Professor of Economics, recently published an op-ed titled, “When Violence Goes Up the Income Gap Widens. Something Needs to Be Done,” in Initiative for Policy Dialogue . The piece discusses how global murder rates have declined steadily over the last two decades but still account for more...

Exposure to violence can have significant economic impacts through their effects of individual behavior. In this VoxDevTalk, Andrea Velásquez, Assistant Professor of Economics, discusses her recent work leveraging a unique set of data to explore how waves of rising violence in Mexico City affect men’s and women’s labor market outcomes...

Economics Associate Professor Hani Mansour and Professor Daniel Rees recently published research with Bryson Rintala (currently a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air force and the first Ph.D. student to graduate from our program) along with Nathan Wozny (from the U.S. Air Force Academy). “ The Effects of Professor Gender...

Andrea Velásquez, Assistant Professor of Economics, discusses her research on how crime affects risk aversion .