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Curriculum Vitae
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Office Address
Department of Economics and Center for Policy Research
Syracuse University
426 Eggers Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244-1020
Voice: 315-443-9045
Fax: 315-443-1081
Mobile: 520-245-9182
E-mail: afloresl@syr.edu
Web: https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/econ/cpr/Alfonso_Flores_Lagunes/
Personal: United States Citizen; Married, 2 children.
Current Positions
2014-present Professor, Department of Economics, Syracuse University.
2016-present Melvin A. Eggers Economics Faculty Scholar, Syracuse University.
2014-present Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University.
2018-present Affiliate Faculty, Aging Studies Institute and Center for Aging and Policy Studies, Syracuse U.
2018-present Affiliate Faculty, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion, Syracuse Unyversity.
2008-present Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany.
2017-present Research Fellow, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
Previous Faculty Appointments
2014-2015 Professor, Department of Economics, State University of New York at Binghamton.
2011-2014 Associate Professor, Department of Economics, State University of New York at Binghamton.
2007-2011 Assistant Professor, Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida.
2001-2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Arizona.
Previous Research and Teaching Appointments
Fall 2013, 2014 Invited Lecturer, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University.
May-Jun 2013 Visiting Scholar, CEPS/INSTEAD (now LISER), Luxembourg.
Jul-Aug 2012 Visiting Scholar, CEPS/INSTEAD (now LISER), Luxembourg.
2006-2007 Visiting Fellow, Industrial Relations Section and Dept. of Economics, Princeton University.
Jan-Jun 2005 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University.
Summer 2000 Visiting Researcher, Central Bank of Mexico.
Spring 1996 Lecturer (Profesor de Cátedra). ITESM, Campus Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
Editorial Appointments
2021-present Editor, Journal of Population Economics.
2015-present Associate Editor, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.
2020-present Associate Editor, Economics Letters.
2015-present Associate Editor, Latin American Economic Review.
2007-present Member of the Editorial Board, Ensayos Revista de Economía.
2017 Section Editor for “Methods and Data”, Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population
Economics, Springer-Verlag.
2017 Guest Editor for special issue of Journal of Business and Economic Statistics on Causal Inference,
Program Evaluation, and External Validity.
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, The Ohio State University, June 2001
M.A., Economics, The Ohio State University, August 1997
B.A., Economics, Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), Campus Monterrey, May 1995
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Fields of Interest: Labor Economics, Econometrics/Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics.
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles (reverse chronological order)
1. “Conscription and Military Service: Do They Result in Violent and Non-Violent Future Incarceration and
Recidivism?” (with X. Wang). Forthcoming, Journal of Human Resources.
2. “Evaluation of Language Training Programs in Luxembourg using Principal Stratification” (with M. Bia
and A. Mercatanti). Forthcoming, Observational Studies.
3. “Genetic Risks, Adolescent Health and Schooling Attainment” (with V. Amin, J. Behrman, J. Fletcher,
C.A. Flores and H-P. Kohler), Health Economics, Vol. 30 (11), November 2021, pp. 2905-2920.
4. “The Impact of BMI on Mental Health: Further Evidence from Genetic Markers” (with V. Amin and Carlos
A. Flores), Economics and Human Biology, Vol. 38, August 2020.
5. “Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects on Duration Outcomes under Censoring, Selection,
and Noncompliance” (with G. Blanco, C.A. Flores and X. Chen). Journal of Business and Economic
Statistics, Vol. 38, 2020, No.4, pp. 901-920.
6. “The Effect of Education on Health: Evidence from the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey”
(with B.H. Baltagi and H.M. Karatas). Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, Vol. 77: 205-221.
7. “Going Beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training” (with X. Chen and
Carlos A. Flores), Journal of Human Resources, 2018, Vol. 53, No. 4: 1050-1099.
8. “The Differential Incidence and Severity of Food Insecurity by Racial, Ethnic, and Immigrant Groups
Over the Great Recession in the United States” (with H. Jales, J. Liu and N. Wilson), American Economic
Review P&P, 108(3), May 2018, pp. 379-83.
9. “An Estimator for Discrete-Choice Models with Spatial Lag Dependence Using Large Samples, with an
Application to Land-Use Conversions” (with C. Carrión-Flores and L. Guci), Regional Science and Urban
Economics, 2018, 69:77-93.
10. “The Effect of Degree Attainment on Crime: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment” (with V.
Amin, Carlos A. Flores, and D.J. Parisian), Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54: 259-273.
11. “A Spatial Model of School District Open Enrollment Choice” (with D. Brasington and L. Guci), Regional
Science and Urban Economics, 2016, 56:1-18.
12. “An Analysis of Bargaining Power for Milk Cooperatives and Milk Processors in Florida” (with J. Ge and
R. Kilmer), Applied Economics, 2015, 47(48): 5159-5168.
13. “Do Dropouts with Longer Training Exposure Benefit from Training Programs? Korean Evidence
Employing Methods for Continuous Treatments” (with C. Choe and S-j. Lee), Empirical Economics, 2015,
48:849–881.
14. “Does Participation in 4-H Improve Schooling Outcomes? Evidence from Florida” (with T. Timko),
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2015, 97(2): 414–434.
15. “The Role of Degree Attainment in the Differential Impact of Job Corps on Adolescents and Young
Adults” (with M. Bampasidou, Carlos A. Flores, and D. Parisian), Research in Labor Economics, vol. 40,
2014, 113-156.
16. “A Stata Package for the Application of Semiparametric Estimators of Dose-Response Functions” (with M.
Bia, Carlos A. Flores, and A. Mattei), Stata Journal, Volume 14 Number 3, 580-604.
17. “Climate Change and Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Spatial Sample Selection Model”
(with P. Ward and R. Florax), European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2014, 41(2): 199-226.
18. “Lessons from Quantile Panel Estimation of the Environmental Kuznets Curve” (with D. Kapetanakis and
Carlos A. Flores), Econometrics Reviews, 2014, 33(8): 815–853.
19. “The Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages of Adolescents and Young Adults” (with G. Blanco and C.A.
Flores), American Economic Review P&P, 103(3), May 2013, pp. 418-22.
20. “Partial Identification of Local Average Treatment Effects with an Invalid Instrument” (with Carlos A.
Flores), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 31, 2013, No.4, pp. 534-545.
21. “Bounds on the Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps on Wages” (with G. Blanco and Carlos A. Flores),
Journal of H
uman Resources, Vol. 48, 2013, No. 3, pp. 659-701.
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22. “Participation in Volunteer-Driven Programs and Their Effects on Homeowners’ Landscaping Practices”
(with T. Borisova, D. Adams, M. Smolen, M. McFarland, D. Boellstorff and B. Mahler), Journal of
Extension, 50(3)(2012):3RIB4.
23. “Estimating the Effects of Length of Exposure to Instruction in a Training Program: The Case of Job
Corps” (with Carlos A. Flores, A. Gonzalez and T. Neumann), The Review of Economics and Statistics,
February 2012, 94(1): 153–171.
24. “Estimation of Sample Selection Models with Spatial Dependence” (with K. Schnier), Journal of Applied
Econometrics, vol. 27, Number 2 (March 2012) 173–204.
25. “The Influence of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation on Housing Markets During the 1930s” (with P.V.
Fishback, W.C. Horrace, S. Kantor, and J. Treber), The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 24, Issue 6
(June 2011), 1782-1813.
26. “Interpreting Degree Effects in the Returns to Education” (with A. Light), Journal of Human Resources,
vol. 45, Number 2 (Spring 2010), 439-467.
27. “Learning but not Earning? The Impact of Job Corps Training for Hispanic Youths” (with A. Gonzalez and
T. Neumann), Economic Inquiry, vol. 48, Number 3 (July 2010), 651-667.
28. “Identifying Technically Efficient Fishing Vessels: A Non-Empty, Minimal Subset Approach” (with W.
Horrace and K. Schnier), Journal of Applied Econometrics, vol. 22, Number 4 (June 2007), 729-745.
29. “Finite Sample Evidence of IV Estimators Under Weak Instruments”, Journal of Applied Econometrics,
vol. 22, Number 3 (April 2007), 677-694.
30. “Measurement Error in Schooling: Evidence from Samples of Siblings and Identical Twins” (with A.
Light), Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 5: No. 1, Article 14, 2006. (The B.E. Journals in
Economic Analysis & Policy).
31. “Has Monetary Policy Become More Efficient? A Cross Country Analysis” (with S.G. Cecchetti and S.
Krause), The Economic Journal, 116 (April 2006), 408–433.
32. “Has Monetary Policy Become More Efficient in Mexico?” (with S.G. Cecchetti and S. Krause), Central
Bank of Mexico Research Document Series (Refereed), Document No. 2001-01.
Book Chapters
33. “Does Job Corps Training Boost Labor Market Outcomes of Young Hispanics?” (with A. Gonzalez and T.
Neumann), in DeFreitas, G. (ed.) Young Workers In The Global Economy: Job Challenges In North
America, Europe And Japan, Edward Elgar, 2008.
34. “Assessing the Sources of Changes in the Volatility of Real Growth” (with S.G. Cecchetti and S. Krause),
in The Changing Nature of the Business Cycle, edited by C. Kent and D. Norman (Reserve Bank of
Australia, 2005). Also available as NBER working paper w11946.
35. “Out of the Barrio: Do Young Hispanics Benefit from Residential Job Training Programs?” (with A.
Gonzalez and T. Neumann), in Proceedings of the 56
th
Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research
Association (IRRA, 2004)
36. “Qualitative Response Models”, (with G. S. Maddala), in A Companion to Theoretical Econometrics,
edited by B. H. Baltagi (Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 2001)
Other Publications
37. “Importance of the Economic Evaluation of Florida’s 4-H” (with T. Timko), EDIS FE753, Department of
Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural
Sciences, University of Florida, September 2008.
Papers Under Review
38. “Moving Policies toward Racial and Ethnic Inequality: An Illustration using the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program” (with H. Jales, J. Liu and N. Wilson). Revise and Resubmit.
39. “What Can We Learn About the Effect of Mental Health on Labor Market Outcomes Under Weak
Assumptions?” (with G. Germinario, V. Amin, and C.A. Flores). Revise and Resubmit.
40. “Nonparametric Partial Identification of Causal Net and Mechanism Average Treatment Effects” (with
C.A. Flores). Revise and Resubmit.
41. “Identification and Estimation of Causal Mechanisms and Net Effects of a Treatment Under
Unconfoundedness” (with C.A. Flores). Revise and Resubmit.
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42. “The Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on the Long-term Health of Veterans: A Bounds Analysis”
(with X. Wang and Carlos A. Flores). Submitted.
43. “Does Youth Training Lead to Better Job Quality? Evidence from Job Corps” (with G. Blanco). Submited.
44. “The Effect of Higher Education on Women’s Obesity and Smoking: Evidence from College Openings in
Turkey” (with B.H. Baltagi and H.M. Karatas). Submitted.
Research in Progress
45. “Bounds on Average Treatment Effects with an Invalid Instrument: An Application to the Oregon Health
Insurance Experiment” (with X. Chen and Carlos A. Flores)
46. “Monopsony in Academia and the Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from California” (with Z. Yu)
47. “Heterogeneous Treatment Effects and Better Treatment Assignment Rules: The Case of Korean Job
Training Programs” (with S. Hwang, C. Choe and Z. He)
48. “Mental Health, Schooling Attainment and Polygenic Scores: Are There Significant Gene-Environment
Associations?” (with V. Amin, J. Behrman, J. Fletcher, C.A. Flores and H-P. Kohler). Submitted.
49. “Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages: Causal Evidence from Nonparametric
Bounds” (with V. Amin, J. Behrman, J. Fletcher, C.A. Flores and H.P. Kohler)
50. “The Effects of Civil Conflicts on Women’s Labor Force Participation: A Causal Mechanism Approach”
(with J.V. Gallegos and J. Ondrich)
51. “Detrimental Effects of Residential Job Training Programs: Evidence from Job Corps” (with J. Cai)
52. “Bunding Methods” (with C.A. Flores)
Media Coverage
• “Heroes of the zeroes.” Special Report: The world economy, The Economist, October 20
th
-26
th
, 2007.
• “Better management of inventory and inflation makes world economies more flexible” by John Clinkard,
Daily Commercial News, Toronto, October 10, 2007.
• “The turning point.” Briefing: The global economy, The Economist, September 22
nd
-28
th
, 2007.
• “La Otra Migración: Cien Mexicanos que enseñan en universidades de Estados Unidos.” By Ana Maria
Lalinde, Poder y Negocios, October 23, 2007.
Grants (Funded)
2017 National Institutes of Health (~$1 million; 09/18-08/22) “Genes, Education, and Gene-Education
Interactions in Obesity and Mental Health”, with V. Amin, J. Behrman, C.A. Flores, H-P. Kohler.
2018 Collaboration for Unprecedented Success and Excellence (CUSE) Grant Program ($30,000)
“Work Transitions in a Dynamic Labor Market”.
2018 Collaboration for Unprecedented Success and Excellence (CUSE) Grant Program ($10,000)
“Preparing for a Post-Work Future?” (Interdisciplinary Seminar Garnt).
2016 Center for Policy Research (Syracuse University) Summer Project Assistantship ($1,800)
2015 Maxwell School (Syracuse University) Appleby-Mosher Fund Faculty Grant ($1,000) “Robust
Statistical Inference on the Health Effects of Military Service”
2009 U. of Florida Center for Latin American Studies Faculty Foreign Travel Grant.
2009 National Science Foundation (over $127,000; 02/09-02/10) “Partial and Point Identification of
Causal Net and Mechanism Effects Under Different Treatment Assignments With Heterogeneous
Effects: Theory and Applications”, with C.A. Flores.
2006 National Science Foundation (over $561,000; 08/06-07/09) “Government, Housing, and the
Changing Income Distribution During the Great Depression: A Disaggregated and
Microeconomic Approach,” with P. Fishback and S. Kantor.
2004, 2005 University of Arizona Foreign Travel Grant.
2002 to 2005 University of Arizona Foundation Summer Research Grant.
Fellowships, Awards, and Honors
• Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award, Syracuse University, 2021.
• Accredited Referee, National System of Scientific and Technological Evaluation (SINECYT), National
Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), Mexico
• Dice Fellowship Award, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University, 2000 and 2001
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• Departmental Citation for Excellence in Teaching AY2000, Department of Economics, The Ohio State
University, Fall 2000
• Doctoral Scholarship, National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), Mexico, September
1996 to June 2001
• Mención Honorífica de Excelencia (Highest Honors), Monterrey Institute of Technology, May 1995
• Luis Donaldo Colosio Award for Undergraduate Economics Research, Monterrey Institute of Technology,
March 1995
Professional Memberships (past and current)
American Society of Hispanic Economists, American Economic Association, Society of Labor Economists,
Econometric Society, Southern Economics Association, Midwest Economics Association, Western Economic
Association International, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
Scholarly Presentations since 2005
Invited Seminar Presentations (since 2005)
• Keynote Address, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore's Management Review Doctoral Conference
(IMRDC) 2022, Virtual, January 2022.
• Invited Speaker, XV Encuentro Internacional de Capital Humano y Crecimiento, Virtual, October 2021.
• Universidad Católica del Uruguay (UCU) Virtual Seminar series, May 2021.
• American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) Virtual Seminar series, April 2021.
• Global Labor Organization (GLO) Virtual Seminar series, October 2020.
• Invited Speaker, XIV Encuentro Internacional de Capital Humano y Crecimiento, Virtual, October 2020.
• Stony Brook University (Department of Economics), November 2019.
• Invited Speaker, XIV Encuentro Internacional de Capital Humano y Crecimiento, November 2019.
• University of Western Ontario (Department of Economics), September 2019.
• Institute for Research in Poverty (University of Wisconsin), June 2019.
• University at Buffalo (Department of Economics), March 2019.
• Iowa State University (Department of Economics), February 2019.
• Georgia State University (Department of Economics), February 2019.
• Auburn University (Department of Economics), December 2018.
• University of Ottawa (Department of Economics), October 2018.
• Invited Speaker, XIII Encuentro Internacional de Capital Humano y Crecimiento, November 2018.
• Pennsylvania State University (Department of Economics), March 2018.
• 13
th
IZA Conference: Labor Market Policy Evaluation, Bonn, October 2017
• The Economics of Crime and Policing Symposium, Syracuse University, October 2017
• University of New Hampshire (Department of Economics), April 2017
• University of Fribourg, March 2017
• ETH Zurich, March 2017
• Cornell University (Department of Economics), March 2017
• University at Albany (SUNY), (Department of Economics), December 2016
• University of Rochester (Department of Economics), November 2016
• University of Alabama (Department of Economics), November 2016
• Queens University (Department of Economics), Kingston, ON, April 2016
• Queens College (Department of Economics), November 2015
• University of Central Florida (Department of Economics), November 2015
• Syracuse University (Center for Policy Research), September 2015
• Keynote Speaker, Workshop on “Social and Labour Market Policy Evaluation with Administrative Data”,
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), June 2015
• Keynote Speaker, XXIV Mexican Colloquium of Mathematical Economics and Econometrics (Colmeme),
September 2014
• Syracuse University (Department of Economics), April 2014
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• The Ohio State University (Department of Economics), April 2013
• Carleton University (Department of Economics), November 2012
• Kent State University (Department of Economics), October 2012
• York University (Department of Economics), March 2012
• Syracuse University (Department of Economics), December 2011
• Institute for Research in Poverty (University of Wisconsin), June 2011
• Texas Tech University (Department of Economics), April 2011
• SUNY-Binghamton (Department of Economics), February 2011
• University of Alabama (Department of Economics), February 2011
• The Ohio State University (Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics),
October 2010
• Fourth Annual Meeting of the Impact Evaluation Network (IEN, LACEA), Miami, FL, October 2010
• Virginia Tech (Agricultural and Applied Economics Department), February 2010
• International Conference on Human Capital, UANL, Monterrey, Mexico, October 2009
• CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg, August 2009
• Institute for Research in Poverty (University of Wisconsin), June 2009
• Georgia State University (Department of Economics), April 2009
• Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) (Department of Economics), March 2008
• University of Southern California (Department of Economics), February 2008
• University of California at Merced (Department of Economics), February 2008
• University of Florida (Department of Economics), February 2008
• Emory University (Department of Economics), November 2007
• IZA's 3
rd
Annual Conference on the Evaluation of Labor Market Programs, October 2007
• Université Laval (Department of Economics), April 2007
• Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section, February 2007
• Purdue University (Department of Economics), January 2007
• Virginia Tech (Department of Economics), January 2007
• University of Florida (Food and Resource Economics Department), November 2006
• Cal Poly (Department of Economics), November 2006
• University of Maimi (Department of Economics), March 2006
• NBER's Universities Research Conference, Structural Changes in the Global Economy: Implications for
Monetary Policy and Financial Regulation, December 2005
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Department of Economics), November 2005
• International Conference on Human Capital, UANL, Monterrey, Mexico, October 2005
• The Ohio State University (Department of Economics), April 2005 (Labor and Econometrics seminars)
• University of Illinois at Chicago (Department of Economics), April 2005
• Purdue University (Department of Agricultural Economics), March 2005
• Syracuse University (Department of Economics), January 2005
Invited Special Workshops (since 2005)
• Workshop on “Microeconometric Methods”, Bank of Mexico—Guadalajara Region, December 2020
• Workshop on “Estimation of Causal Effects Using ‘Selection-on-Observables’ Assumptions”, Center for
Policy Research, Syracuse University, September 2017
• Main Lecturer (joint with Donald Rubin and Fabrizia Mealli), International Workshop on “Causal
Inference, Program Evaluation and External Validity”, Luxembourg Institute for Socio-Economic Research
(LISER), Luxembourg, July 2017
• Academic Keynote Speaker, Innovative Week, ITESM-Campus Guadalajara (Mexico), Topic: Causality in
Economics, September 2015
• Main Lecturer (joint with Guido Imbens and Fabrizia Mealli), Workshop on “Theory and Practice of
Program Evaluation”, CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg, May 2012
• Workshop on “Spatial Econometrics”, CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg, July 2012
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• Workshop on “Regression Discontinuity Designs and Differences-in-Differences Methods”,
CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg, May 2013
Conference Presentations and Other (since 2005)
• Southern Economic Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA & Virtual, November 2020
• Center for Aging and Policy Studies Annual Conference, Syracuse University (Virtual), October 2020.
• Midwest Econometrics Group Meeting, Columbus, OH, October 2019
• Midwest Econometrics Group Meeting, Madison, WI, October 2018
• Canadian Econometrics Study Group Meeting, Ottawa, ON, October 2018
• Western Economics Association International Meeting, Vancouver, BC, June 2018
• Society of Labor Economists Meeting, Toronto, ON, May 2018
• Western Economics Association International Meeting, Honolulu, HI, July 2015
• Conference in Honor of Ronald L. Oaxaca, Tucson, AZ, May 2015
• New York Camp Econometrics, Lake George, NY, April 2015
• Southern Economic Association Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2014
• Midwest Econometrics Group Meeting, Iowa City, IA, September 2014
• Society of Labor Economists Meeting, Arlington, VA, May 2014
• New England Statistics Symposium, Boston, MA, April 2014
• Midwest Economics Association Annual Meetings, Columbus, OH, March 2013
• Midwest Econometrics Group, Lexington, KY, September 2012
• New York Camp Econometrics, Cooperstown, NY, April 2012
• Southern Economics Association Meetings, Atlanta, GA, November 2010
• New York Camp Econometrics, Blue Mountain Lake, NY, October 2010
• Southern Economics Association Meetings, San Antonio, TX, November 2009
• Latin American Meetings of the Econometric Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2009
• European Meetings of the Econometric Society, Barcelona, Spain, August 2009
• Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, July 2009
• III Spatial Econometrics Association World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, July 2009
• 15
th
International Conference on Panel Data, Bonn, Germany, July 2009
• Western Economics Association International Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada, June 2009
• New York Camp Econometrics, Lake Placid, NY, April 2009
• IV Congress of the Latin American and Caribbean Association of Environmental and Natural Resource
Economists, Heredia, Costa Rica, March 2009
• American Economic Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, January 2009
• Latin American Meetings of the Econometric Society, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2008
• Midwest Econometrics Group Meeting, St. Louis University, October 2007
• Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 2007
• Camp Econometrics II, organized by Syracuse University, Saratoga Springs, NY, March 2007
• American Economic Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, January 2007 (2 papers in program)
• Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, Mexico City, Mexico, November 2006
• Midwest Econometrics Group Meeting, University of Cincinnati, October 2006
• Economic Science Association Meeting, Tucson, AZ, September 2006
• Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, May 2006
• Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 2006
• Econometric Society World Congress, London, UK, August 2005
• Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, June 2005
• Midwest Economic Association Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, March 2005
• North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, Philadelphia, PA, January 2005
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Referee—number of papers in parentheses:
Econometrica (1)
Journal of Business and Economic
Statistics (9)
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and
Statistics (2)
Econometric Theory (1)
American Journal of Agricultural
Economics (6)
Research in Labor Economics (1)
Journal of Money, Credit and
Banking (5)
Journal of the Royal Statistical
Society—A (2)
Evaluation Review (1)
Communications in Statistics (1)
Springer, Edited Volume (2)
Blackwell, Edited Volume (1)
Stata Journal (3)
EconoQuantum (1)
International Migration (1)
Journal of Development Studies (1)
Review of Economic Studies (1)
Journal of Labor Economics (4)
Journal of Econometrics (14)
Labour Economics (3)
Regional Science and Urban
Economics (9)
Journal of Regional Science (2)
Economics Letters (26)
Economic Inquiry (6)
Journal of Survey Statistics and
Methodology (1)
El Trimestre Económico (1)
China Economic Review (1)
Economics of Education Review (4)
Journal of Population Economics
(4)
Journal of Human Capital (1)
Journal of Policy Analysis and
Management (1)
Pacific Economic Review (1)
Review of Economics and
Statistics (3)
Journal of Applied Econometrics
(14)
Journal of Human Resources (4)
Labour (1)
Journal of Urban Economics (4)
Macroeconomic Dynamics (1)
European Economic Review (1)
IZA Journal of Labor Economics
(1)
Journal of Productivity Analysis (4)
Ensayos Revista de Economía (4)
Resource and Energy Economics
(1)
Structural Change and Economic
Dynamics (1)
Empirical Economics (5)
Econometrics (1)
Journal of International Trade &
Economic Development (1)
Book Manuscript Reviews
Academic Press (1)
Houghton Mifflin Company, College Division (1)
Wiley (1)
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group (1)
Grant Proposal Reviews
National Science Foundation (5)
W.T. Grant Foundation (1)
Collaboration for Unprecedented Success and Excellence (CUSE) Grant Program: 2019 to 2021
Other Service to the Profession:
- President-Elect, American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE)
- Panelist in the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) “Midcareer Economist Mentoring Workshop”
- Participant in Adopt a Paper, mentoring event organized by researchers connecting senior and junior researchers,
2021
- Participant in Econopalooza, networking event organized by the Committee on the Status of Women in the
Economics Profession (CSWEP), 2021
- External Evaluator for a proposed Bachelor of Science program at University at Buffalo, 2020
- Reviewer, 2020 Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs (and NAS)
- Reviewer of Grant Applications, Economists for Equity at Berkeley (BEE), 2020, 2021
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- Member of Scientific Committee, Latin American Meetings of the Econometric Society (LAMES), 2018
- Scholarship and Awards Committee, American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE), 2020-present
- Scholarship and Awards Committee Chair, American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE), 2018-2021
- Letters for Promotion to: Associate Professor with Tenure (7), Full Professor (9)
- Reviewer of Papers, American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 2016-2017
- Scientific Committee member on a proposal submitted to the Luxembourg National Research Fund Agency, 2016
- Judge, NSF Research Day Poster Competition (Innovation through Institutional Integration), University of
Florida, 2010
- Topic Leader, Household and Labor Economics Area, Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, 2011 and
2012
- Member of Scientific Committee, IV World Congress of the Spatial Econometrics Association, 2010
- Reviewer of Abstracts for the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association.
Quantitative Methods Area
Community Service:
- Interviews with Reporters:
Wall Street Journal (2); Marketplace (1); Albany Business Review; PBS-WCNY Connected; Oswego
Management County Business Magazine; Post Standard (4); Crain's New York Business; The Daily
Orange (9); Citrus TV; Newhouse students; CUNY School of Journalism; NCC News; Department of
Broadcast and Digital Journalism at Syracuse University.
- Board Member, Sedgwick Farms Tennis Club, Syracuse, NY
University Service:
Dates Served Service
At Syracuse University
2021-2022 Recruiting Committee, Department of Economics
2020-2021 Recruiting Committee Chair, Department of Economics
2020 Department of Economics Ad-hoc Climate Committee
2020-2022 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Economics
2020-2022 Research Evaluation Committee, Department of Economics
2018-present Econometrics Comprehensive Exam Committee, Department of Economics
2019-2020 Graduate Studies Committee member, Department of Economics
2020 Member, Ad-hoc “Climate Committee”, Department of Economics
2017-2018 Recruiting Committee, Department of Economics
2017-2018 Graduate Student Workshop Co-Organizer, Department of Economics
2016-2017 Recruiting Committee Chair (2 openings), Department of Economics
2015-2018 Chair of Mentoring Committee for an Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
2015-2018 Research Evaluation Committee, Department of Economics
2015-2020 Applied Micro Seminar Co-Organizer, Department of Economics
2016 Member, Ad-hoc “Internationalization Subgroup”, Maxwell Dean Search
2014-2015 Recruiting Committee, Department of Economics
2014-2015 Departmental Seminar Co-organizer, Department of Economics
At Binghamton University
Spring 2014 Faculty Senate, Binghamton University
2013-2014 Critical Thinking / Information Management Assessment Category Team, Binghamton
University
2013-2014 Executive Committee, Department of Economics
2013-2014 Coordinator of the Department of Economics Seminar Series
Spring 2013 Educational Policies and Procedures Committee (EPPC), Harpur College
and Fall 2013
2012-2013 and New Undergraduate Students Faculty Mentoring Program, Binghamton University
2013-2014
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Dates Served Service
2012-2013 and Recruiting Committee, Department of Economics
2013-2014
2012-2013 and Undergraduate Committee, Department of Economics
2013-2014
2012-2013 PhD Seminar Organizer, Department of Economics
At the University of Florida
2011 Preliminary Exam Committee, Food and Resource Economics Department
2008-2011 Food and Resource Economics PhD Program Admissions Committee
2009-2010 Food and Resource Economics Steering Committee
2009-2010 Food and Resource Economics Academic Programs Committee
2008-2009 Food and Resource Economics Graduate Studies Committee
2008 Food and Resource Economics Search Committee
At the University of Arizona
2005-2007 Doctoral Committee, Department of Economics
2003-2007 Mentor, University of Arizona Hispanic Alumni Association Mentoring Program
2003 – 2004 Senior Awards Interview Committee, University of Arizona (every semester)
Spring 2003 Millennium Committee (diversity issues), Eller College of Management
2002-2006 Committee in Charge of Quantitative Preliminary Exams, Department of Economics
2001-2002 Admissions Appeals Committee, University of Arizona
2001-2005 Undergraduate Committee, Department of Economics
Teaching Experience
PhD Level
Courses
• EC
N 623 (formerly ECN 720). Program Evaluation. Syracuse University, 2016, 2018, 2019,
2020, 2021, 2022
• ECN 751. Labor Economics. Syracuse University, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
• PAM 6090/ECON 6590. Empirical Strategies for Policy Research. Cornell University, 2013,
2014.
• ECON 641. Labor Economics. Binghamton University, 2012, 2014
• ECON 617. Applied Econometrics. Binghamton University, 2013 (Fall and Spring)
• AEB 6933. Advanced Topics in Econometrics. University of Florida, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
• AEB 6571. Econometric Methods I. University of Florida, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
• ECON 520. Theory of Quantitative Methods. University of Arizona, 2002, 2003
• ECON 522A. Econometrics. University of Arizona, 2002, 2004, 2006
Undergraduate Courses
• E
CN 451. Labor Economics. Syracuse University, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
• ECN 301. Intermediate Microeconomics. Syracuse University, 2015
• ECON 381L. Economic Analysis of Public Programs. Binghamton University, every semester
since Spring 2012
• ECON 443. Labor Economics. Binghamton University, 2011, 2012
• ECON 330. Macroeconomic Institutions and Policy. University of Arizona, 2001, 2002, 2003
• ECON 481. Economics of Wage Determination. University of Arizona, 2005, 2006
• ECON 276. Statistical Inference in Management. University of Arizona, 2003, 2005
• ECON 580. Labor Economics. The Ohio State University, 2000, 2005
• ECON H201. Honor’s Principles of Macroeconomics. The Ohio State University, 2005
• Principles of Economics and of Macroeconomics. ITESM, Mexico, 1995 (in Spanish)
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Student Advising
PhD Dissertation
Main Advisor (graduation date, initial placement)
Clemente Hernandez (2003, ITESM campus Guadalajara, Mexico)
Kamarun Nishan Taufil Mohd (2004, Universiti Utara Malaysia)
Ledia Guci (2011, Bureau of Economic Analysis)
Troy Timko (2011, University of Miami—Lecturer)
Maria Bampasidou (2012, Santa Fe College—Lecturer; Asst. Prof. at LSU since 2015)
German Blanco (2013, Illinois State University—Assistant Professor)
Olu Omodunbi (2015, Goldman Sachs)
Daniel Parisian (2015, Mississippi State University—Assistant Professor)
Xintong Wang (2017, Hobart and William Smith Colleges—Visiting Assistant Professor)
Haci Karatas (Co-Chair; 2017, Giresun University, Turkey)
Judith Liu (2019, Melbourne Institute)
Seokchae Hwang (2019, Ministry of Finance and Economics, South Korea)
Dahae Choo (Co-Chair; 2021, Seoul National University Post-doc)
Huong Tran (Co-Chair; 2021, Mr. Cooper Group)
Giuseppe Germinario (2022, Census Bureau)
Zhanhan Yu (in progress)
Radine Rafols (in progress)
Zhe He (in progress)
Master Thesis Main Advisor (graduation date, initial placement)
Dimitris Kapetanakis (2008, PhD student in economics at University of Alicante, Spain)
Abu Mansoor (2009, CBRE)
PhD Dissertation Committee Member (graduation date, initial placement)
Tracy Regan (2003, University of Miami—Assistant Professor)
Ku
rt Schnier (2003, University of Rhode Island—Assistant Professor)
Francisco Román (Accounting student, 2003, Rice University—Assistant Professor)
Vladimira Ilieva (2003, The Dreman Foundation)
Tolga Ergun (2004, Suffolk University—Assistant Professor)
Zan Huang (Management of Information Systems student, 2004, Penn State—Assistant Professor)
Nidhi Thakur (2004, Texas Tech)
Sam Allen (2004, University of California at Davis—Post Doc)
Simona Lup (2005, University of Mississippi—Assistant Professor)
Jaret Treber (2005, Kenyon College—Assistant Professor)
Abdoul Sam (2005, The Ohio State University, Agricultural Economics—Assistant Professor)
Vince Intintoli (Finance student, 2005, Southern Illinois University—Assistant Professor)
Todd Neumann (2006, University of California at Merced—Assistant Professor)
George Theocharides (Finance student, 2006, SKK Business School, Korea—Assistant Professor)
Emmanuel Morales Camargo (Finance student, 2006, University of New Mexico—Assistant Professor)
Todd Sorensen (2007, University of California at Riverside—Assistant Professor)
Chung Choe (2006, CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg)
Haimanti Bhattacharya (2006, Columbia University—Post-Doc)
Oleksandr Scherbakov (2007, Yale University—Post Doc)
Adrian Stoian (2007, Cal State East Bay—Assistant Professor)
Paul Jaramillo (2009, KEYTRADE AG)
Jiaoju Ge (2009, Sichuan University—Assistant Professor)
Pankaj Lal (Forestry student, 2010, Montclair State University—Assistant Professor)
Megan Silbert (2010, Salem College—Assistant Professor)
Liliana Alencastro (2010, Center for Rural Research at ESPOL, Ecuador)
Veronique Theriault (2011, Michigan State University—Assistant Professor in Agricultural Economics)
Jose V. Gallegos (PhD student at Syracuse, 2012, Institute of Development Studies at University of Sussex)
Nekeisha Spencer (2014, Albany State University—Assistant Professor)
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Chong Li (2014, Citibank)
Junyi Xu (2015, Murray State University—Assistant Professor)
Sophia Terrelonge (2015)
Zhonghui (Grace) Liu (2015, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital)
Huan Li (2015, Purdue University Agricultural Economics post-doc)
Nuno A. F. Mota (2015, Fannie Mae)
Mallory Vachon (2015, Louisiana State University—Assistant Professor)
Xiaoxue Li (2015, University of New Mexico—Assistant Professor)
Fa Wang (2016, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics—Assistant Professor)
Yusuf Bagir (2016, Central Bank of Turkey)
Carlos Diaz (2016, CERES, Uruguay)
Sherry Zhang (2017, Xiamen University, China)
Laura Rodriguez (2019, Public Administration, in progress)
Yang Liang (2018, San Diego State University)
Jindong Pang (2018, Wuhan University)
Ling Li (2018, University of Wisconsin-Parkside)
Boqian Jiang (2018, Amazon)
Fabio Rueda-De-Vivero (2018, Deloitte Tax LLP)
Hyunseok Jung (2018, University of Arkansas)
Wancong Fu (2018, Shouju Technology Co. LTD)
Krieg Tidemann (2019, Niagara University)
Audrey Dong (2020, University of Auckland—Assistant Professor)
Hoang Pham (2020, Oregon State University—Assistant Professor)
Jun Cai (2020, Wuhan University—Assistant Professor)
Jonathan Presler (2020, Saint Louis University—Post Doc)
David Schwegman (2020, PAIA program, American University—Assistant Professor)
Guanyu Liu (2021)
Tianyun Zhu (2021, Jinan University)
Jeehee Han (2021, Texas A&M University)
Joaquin Urego Garcia (2021, University of California at Berkeley—Post Doc)
Ziqiao Chen (2021, PAIA program, in progress)
Emily Cardon (2021, PAIA program, in progress)
Elisa Taveras (2022, economics student at Binghamton Univ.)
Shiyang Xiao (2023, Social Science PhD program at Syracuse University, in progress)
Rachel Jarrold-Grapes (2022, Federal Trade Commission)
Master Thesis Committee Member
Eloise Aka (2009)
Undergraduate Thesis Advisor
Melanie Rosenberg (2013, High Honors)
