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Associate Research Scholar
and Lecturer Woodrow Wilson School 347 Wallace Hall Princeton University, NJ
08544 |
Research Fellow |
Education:
B.A. in Economics, University of Barcelona,
1990
M.A. Political Economy, Boston University, 1993
Ph.D. in Economics, Boston University, 1996
Research Interest:
Fertility, Migration and
Labor Market Institutions; International and Regional Development; Income
Distribution and Political Economy; Freedom of the Press and Corruption.
1. Fertility Adaptation of Child Migrants to Canada (with
Ana Ferrer), Population Studies (forthcoming 2013) (Working
paper: Age at Migration, Language and Fertility transitions among migrants to
Canada; IZA Working Paper #5552, March 2011.)PDF Working paper
2. Parental Son Preference and Children’s Housework: the
Indian Case (with Tin-chi Lin,) Population Research and Policy Review (forthcoming 2013) PDF Working paper
3. Fertility Patterns of Child Migrants: Age at Migration
and Ancestry in Comparative Perspective (with Ana Ferrer, Wendy Sigle-Rushton and Ben Wilson), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,
V.463, September 2012.
4. Student Performance in Elementary Schools: Evidence
from Catalonia (with
Maria Gutierrez-Domenech), Revista de Economia Aplicada
Vol XX, 135-164,
2012.
5. The Interplay of Employment Uncertainty and Education
in explaining Second Births in Europe Demographic
Research Volume 25, Article 16, 2011. PDF
file
6. Where are the babies? Labor Market Conditions and
Fertility in Europe, European Journal of
Population, 27 (1), 1-32, 2011.PDF Working paper
7. Fertility Changes in Latin America in the Context of
Economic Uncertainty (with Alicia
Menendez), Population Studies, First Published online on: 06 January 2011. PDF Working paper
8. Is Fertility Indeed related to Religiosity? Population Studies July, 61 (2),
225-230, July 2007. PDF File
9. Are There Gender Differences in Immigrant Labor Market
Outcomes across European Countries? (with Barry R. Chiswick), Journal of Population Economics, Special
Issue - Ethnic and Racial Communities, 20 (3), 495–526, 2007.
PDF Working paper
10.
Marital Fertility
and Religion in Spain, Population Studies,
60:2, 205-221, July 2006.PDF Working
paper
11.
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 Working
paper
12.
Religion and
Changes in Family-size Norms in Developed Countries, Review of Religious Research, 47:3, 271-286, March 2006. PDF File
13.
Vanishing
Children. From High Unemployment to Low Fertility in Europe, American Economic Review, Papers and
Proceedings, 95 (2), May 2005.PDF File
14.
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
15.
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 Summary on Corruption and Freedom of the Press
17.
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
18.
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.
19.
History and
Coordination Failure (with Debraj Ray), Journal of
Economic Growth 3: 267-276, September 1998. PDF
File
20.
Desempleo regional europeo. La interacción de la
educación y el mercado de trabajo (with Carles Boix ), Cuadernos Economicos del ICE 63: 49-77, 1997.
Book Chapters:
1.
Migrant Youth and
Children of Migrants in a Globalized World. (with Marta Tienda), (Introductory
paper) Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Special
Issue on Migrant Youth and Children of Migrants in a Globalized World, v643,
September 2012
2.
Fertility,
Feminism and Faith: How are Secularism and economic Conditions Influencing
Fertility in the West?. In Whither the Child? Causes and Consequences
of Low Fertility. P. 1-28. Eric Kaufman and Bradford Wilcox (eds.) Paradigm
Publishers, Colorado 2013.
3.
The Fertility
Decisions of Canadian Immigrants, (with Ana Ferrer). Canadian Research on Immigration. Edited
by Arthur Sweetman, Ted McDonald and Elizabeth Ruddick, John Deutchs Institute of Economic Policy, Queen's University.
McGill-Queen's Press 2010. Book information Book webpage is http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=2502.
4.
What Matters for
Education? Evidence for Catalonia, (with Maria Gutierrez-Domenech,
Research Department, La Caixa Savings Bank,
Barcelona), La Caixa Working Paper 2009
5.
Constitutions and
Democratic Breakdowns (with Carles
Boix )). In Jose Maria Maravall and Ignacio
Sanchez-Cuenca, Controlling Governments:
Voters, Institutions, and Accountability. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Book
information
6.
Fertility in
Developed Countries. In L. Blume and S. Durlauf (eds.) The New PalgraveDictionary of Economics,
2nd edition. England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Dictionary webpage
7.
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. In Japanese
(English summaries)
8.
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 Book
information. Download
Book
9.
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, 2006. Book
information
10.
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.
11.
Comment on “Are
You Being Served? Political Accountability and Quality of Government”.
Summarized in Global Corruption Report
2001, R. Hodess Ed., Transparency
International 2001.Book information
PDF File
12.
¿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. Book information.
Special Issues:
Co-editor jointly with Marta Tienda. Special Issue on Migrant Youth and Children of Migrants in a
Globalized World, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science, v643, September 2012.
Under Review:
1. The role of language in shaping international
migration: Evidence from OECD countries 1985-2006 (with Mariola Pytlikova, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark ) 2010.PDF
IZA Working paper CREAM Working
paper (Revise and Resubmit)
2. The Fertility of Recent Immigrants to Canada (with Ana Ferrer, University
of Calgary, Canada), 2013
Unpublished and Working papers:
1.
Chapter under
preparation: Immigrants and Demography: Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility (for Handbook on the Economics of International
Migration, Volume 1, edited by B. R. Chiswick and
P. W. Miller for the “Handbooks in Economics Series”, Kenneth J. Arrow and
Michael D. Intriligator eds., Elsevier B.V.) (with
Ana Ferrer)
2.
Speeding up for a
son? Fertility transitions among first and second generation migrants to Canada
(with Ana Ferrer,
University of Calgary, Canada), 2012.
3.
The role of
political forces in shaping international migration (with Mariola Pytlikova),
2013
4.
Exploring the
“Welfare Magnet” hypothesis among Migrants across OECD destinations (with
Mariola Pytlikova and John Palmer), 2013.
5.
Democratic
Stability and Political Institutions: A Survival Analysis (with Carles Boix ), University of
Chicago, Spring 2005.
6.
Balancing
Childbearing and Work under Different Labor Market Arrangements: An Analysis of
European Union Countries, 2008.
7.
An Analysis of
Adult Cigarette Demand in Europe: Evidence from Longitudinal Data (with John Tauras),
UIC, 2005.
8.
The
Immigrant-Native Gap in Labor Market Earnings and Total Net Income across
European Countries, 2006.
9.
Earnings
Differences among Married and Cohabiting Individuals across Gender. An analysis
of European Union Countries, 2006.
10.
Subjective and
objective measures of religiosity and fertility choices in developed countries,
2007
11.
Development as a Cyclical Process 2005.
Abstracts and Electronic
copies of my papers are available on the IZA webpage www.iza.org or at the SSRN Electronic Library
at:
Other Significant
Accomplishments:
Co-director
of the Child Migration Network, Princeton University. Since 2010. http://globalnetwork.princeton.edu
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