Alicia Adsera

 

Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer

Woodrow Wilson School

347 Wallace Hall

Princeton University, NJ 08544

E-Mail: adsera@princeton.edu

 

Research Fellow
IZA Institute for the Study of Labor
Bonn, Germany
http://www.iza.org

Education:

B.A. in Economics, University of Barcelona, 1990
M.A. Political Economy, Boston University, 1993
Ph.D. in Economics, Boston University, 1996

Fields of Interest:

Fertility, Migration and Labor Market Institutions, International and Regional Development, Income Distribution and Political Economy.

Papers:

Is Fertility Indeed related to Religiosity? Population Studies July, 61 (2), 225-230, July 2007. PDF File

Are There Gender Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Countries? (with Barry Chiswick), Journal of Population Economics, Special Issue - Ethnic and Racial Communities, 20 (3), 495–526, 2007. PDF File

Marital Fertility and Religion in Spain, Population Studies, 60:2, 205-221, July 2006.PDF File

An Economic Analysis of the Gap between Desired and Actual Fertility. The Case of Spain, Review of Economics of the Household 4:1, 75-95, March 2006. PDF File

Religion and Changes in Family-size Norms in Developed Countries, Review of Religious Research, 47:3, 271-286, March 2006. PDF File

Vanishing Children. From High Unemployment to Low Fertility in Europe, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 95 (2), May 2005.PDF File

Changing Fertility Rates in Developed Countries. The Impact of Labor Market Institutions, Journal of Population Economics 17: 17-43, January 2004 (Copyright Springer-Verlag)  PDF File

Are You Being Served? Political Accountability and Quality of Government (with Carles Boix and Mark Payne), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 19: 2, 445-490, October 2003. PDF File  (Working Paper 438, Research Department Inter-American Development Bank, November 2000.  PDF File

Trade, Democracy and the Size of the Public Sector: The Political Underpinnings of Openness (with Carles Boix),  International Organization 56: 229-262, 2002.  PDF File

Must We Choose? European Unemployment, American Inequality and the Impact of Education and Labor Market Institutions, (with Carles Boix ) European Journal of Political Economy 16: 611-638, 2000. PDF file

Sectoral Spillovers and the Price of Land: A Cost Analysis across U.S. States, Regional Science and Urban Economics 30: 565-585, September 2000 PDE File

History and Coordination Failure (with  Debraj Ray), Journal of Economic Growth 3: 267-276, September 1998. PDF File  Reprinted in Dhilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray (eds.) Readings in The Theory of Economic Development, Blackwell: London, pp. 84-93, December 2000.

Desempleo regional europeo. La interaccion de la educacion y el mercado de trabajo (with Carles Boix), Cuadernos Economicos del ICE 63: 49-77, 1997.

Under Review:

Where are the babies? Labor Market Conditions and Fertility in Europe, IZA Discussion Paper N.1576.

Fertility Changes in Latin America in the Context of Economic Uncertainty (with Alicia Menendez), University of Chicago, August 2008. PDF File

Book Chapters:

Constitutions and Democratic Breakdowns (with Carles Boix). In Jose Maria Maravall and Ignacio Sanchez-Cuenca, Voters, Institutions, and Accountability. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Fertility in Developed Countries. In L. Blume and S. Durlauf (eds.) The New PalgraveDictionary of Economics, 2nd edition. England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Kempo to Democracy no Hokai (jointly with Carles Boix and translated by Yuki Yanai,) pp. 82-117, In Hideko Magara & Masanobu Ido, eds., Veto Players and Policy Change (Kyohiken-Player to Seisaku Tenkan), Waseda University Press, 2007.

Canvi Demografic a Europa: la transformacio dels valors familiars i del mercat de treball in Centre d’Estudis Jordi Pujol (Ed.) Canvi Demografic i estat del benestar, Barcelona, 2007.

Divergent Patterns in Immigrant Earnings across European Destinations (with Barry R. Chiswick) In Craig Parsons and Timothy Smeeding (eds.) Immigration and the Transformation of Europe, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2006.

The Political Economy of Trade and Economic Integration: A Review Essay (with Carles Boix). In R. Devlin and A. Estevadordal (eds.) Bridges for Development, 2003. pp. 75-92. John Hopkins University Press and Inter-American Development Bank. 

Comment on “You Being Served? Political Accountability and Quality of Government”. Summarized in Global Corruption Report 2001, R. Hodess Ed., Transparency International 2001.

¿Debemos elegir? Desempleo europeo, desigualdad americana y el impacto de la educación y las instituciones del mercado laboral (with Carles Boix) In: José María Maravall Herrero (ed.) Políticas de bienestar y desempleo, p. 263-284, Madrid 1999.

Research in Progress:

Democratic Stability and Political Institutions: A Survival Analysis (with Carles Boix), University of Chicago, Spring 2005.

Balancing Childbearing and Work under Different Labor Market Arrangements: An Analysis of European Union Countries

Time use among European Youth and Education performance, (with Maria Gutierrez-Domenech, Research Department, La Caixa Savings Bank, Barcelona), 2008.

What Matters for Education? Evidence for Catalonia, (with Maria Gutierrez-Domenech, Research Department, La Caixa Savings Bank, Barcelona), 2009.

Education, Labor Markets and Fertility changed: An Analysis of the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys.

An Analysis of Adult Cigarette Demand in Europe: Evidence from Longitudinal Data (with John Tauras), UIC, 2005.

The Immigrant-Native Gap in Labor Market Earnings and Total Net Income across European Countries, 2006.

Earnings Differences among Married and Cohabiting Individuals across Gender. An analysis of European Union Countries, 2006.

Development as a Cyclical Process. 

Subjective and objective measures of religiosity and fertility choices in developed countries, 2007

 

Abstracts and Electronic copies of my papers are available on the IZA webpage www.iza.org or at the SSRN Electronic Library at:

http://ssrn.com/author=330846

 

Current Research Interests:

Fertility and Labor Markets, European Migration, International Political Economy: political institutions and trade and fiscal policies, Economic Growth and Government Performance

Other Significant Accomplishments:

 

Research Associate, Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University. Since August 2008.

 

Faculty Associate, Office of Population Research, Princeton University. Since July 2006.

 

Faculty Associate, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University. Since July 2006.

 

Research Fellow, IZA Institute for the Study of Labor. Since 2004.

 

Associate to the European Network on the Economics of Religion. Since January 2006.

 

Visiting Associate Professor, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, NJ 2006-2008.

 

Visiting Scholar, Office of Population Research, Princeton University 2006-2008.

 

Research Affiliate, Population Research Center, University of Chicago, http://www.spc.uchicago.edu/prc/ 2005-2006

NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Research Center at NORC and the University of Chicago, 2003-2005.

 

Great Cities Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2001-2002 

The Ohio State University, Visiting Assistant Professor 1998-99 

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain), Assistant Professor, 1996-98 

Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1995-95 

WissenschaftsZentrum of Berlin (Germany), Visiting Scholar, May-July 1995 

CIRIT Scholarship, Generalitat of Catalonia, 1992-94 

Bank of Spain Scholarship, 1990-92