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EDUCATION
B.A. 1981 Denison University, Granville, Ohio. Summa Cum Laude in Latin American Area Studies.
M.A. 1986 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Economics.
Ph.D. 1987 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Economics.
EXPERIENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
1988 to the present, Professor (2005-present), Associate Professor (1995-2005) and
Assistant Professor (1988-1995), Department of
Economics,
University of Maryland Baltimore County.
2014 to the present and 1998-2001, Graduate Program Director, Master of Arts in Economic Policy Analysis, University of Maryland Baltimore County.
2007 to the present, Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor
(IZA),
Bonn, Germany.
2004 to the present, Fellow, IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor), Bonn, Germany.
1988 to the present, Visiting Researcher, Institute for Research in
Economic
Science, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica.
2001, Visiting Professor, University of Costa Rica, Department of
Economics and
the Institute for Research in Economic Science. Funded with a
Fulbright
Lecture/Research Award.
1994, Visiting Professor, Masters Program in Economic Policy, National
Autonomous University of Costa Rica, Human Resource Economics
Department.
1992, Visiting Professor, University of Costa Rica, Department of
Economics and
the Institute for Research in Economic Science. Funded with a
Fulbright
Lecture/Research Award.
1987-1988, Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University,
Department
of Economics and Department of Latin American Studies.
National Merit Scholarship, Denison University, 1977-1981.
Herbert H. Lehman Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University, 1982-1986.
Economics Teacher of the Year, UMBC, 1989-1990.
PUBLICATIONS - ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
“The Consequences of Increased Enforcement of
Legal
Minimum Wages in a Developing Country: An Evaluation of the Impact of
the Campaña Nacional de Salarios
Mínimos in Costa Rica,” (with Nadwa
Mossaad of UMBC and Juan Diego Trejos
of the University of Costa Rica), accepted for publication in Industrial and Labor Relations Review.
“La distribución del ingreso en Centroamérica (The Distribution of Income in Central America,” (with Juan Diego Trejos of the University of Costa Rica), accepted for publication in Mesoamerica.
“Self-employment in the
Developing World,”
(with David Newhouse of the World Bank), World Development,
Vol. 56
(2014), pages 313-331. An earlier working paper version of this
paper is
available as a World Bank Policy Research Working Paper #6201,
Washington, September 2012.
“Income Mobility in Costa Rica,
2001-2007,” (with
Samuel Rowe of UMBC and Juan Diego Trejos
of the
University of Costa Rica), Revista de Ciencias Economicas (Costa
Rica), Vol. 32, No.1 (2014), pages 9-23.
"Does Increasing the Minimum Wage Reduce
Poverty
in Developing Countries?" IZA World of Labor, published on-line
2014.
"Is Hispanic Population Dispersion into Rural
Counties Contributing to Local Economic Growth?" (with Dennis
Coates of
UMBC), Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 31(2013), pages
649-668.
The published paper is a substantially
revised version of IZA
Discussion Paper 4682, January, 2010.
"Family Separation and Reunification
as
a Factor in the Educational Success of Immigrant Children," (with Sara
Poggio of UMBC), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol.
38, No. 7
(August, 2012), pages 1155-1173.
"Minimum Wages, Globalization and Poverty in Honduras, " (with Katherine Terrell of the University of Michigan), World Development, Vol. 38, No. 6 (June, 2010), pages 908-918, A version is available as an IZA Discussion Paper 2497, December 2006..
"Hogares
monoparentales encabezados por mujeres y pobreza en Costa Rica," (with Luis Oviedo of the
Univesity of Costa Rica), La Revista de
la CEPAL,
Vol. 94, (April 2008), pp.121-132. (Click here for an English version of this
paper;
"Female-headed Single-parent Households and Poverty
in Costa Rica")
"The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages
Throughout
the Labor Market: The Case of Costa Rica," (with Katherine Terrell of the
University of Michigan), Labour Economics, Volume 14,
pages
485-511, 2007 (Click here for an earlier working paper version
of this
paper).
"Accounting for Changing Inequality in Costa Rica: 1980-99," (with Juan Diego Trejos of the University of Costa Rica), Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 41, No. 5, (July 2005), pp. 898-926.
"Poverty in Latin America," Latin
American Research Review, Vol. 40, No. 1, 2005, pages 207-222.
"La
Desigualdad en America Central Durante los
anos noventa," (with
Juan
Diego Trejos of the University
of Costa Rica), La Revista de la CEPAL, Vol. 84 (December
2004), pp. 177-198. (English version--Inequality in Central
America in the
1990s)
"The Nature of Minimum Wages and Their Effectiveness as a Wage Floor in Costa Rica" (with Katherine Terrell of the University of Michigan), World Development, Vol. 23, No. 8 (August, 1995), pp. 1439-1458.
"Changing Rates of Return to Education in Taiwan: 1978-1991" (with Marsha Goldfarb of UMBC and Chun-chig Chang of the National Cheng-chi University), World Development, Vol. 23, No. 2 (February, 1995), pp. 343-356.
"Women's Wages and Economic Crisis in Costa Rica," Economic
Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 41, No. 2 (January, 1993),
pp.
277-298.
"¿Por
qué las mujeres ganan menos que los hombres en Costa
Rica," Revista de Ciencias Economicas
(Costa Rica), Vol. XIII, No 1 and 2 (January-February,
1993), pp.3-31.
"La mujer y la crisis económica en Costa Rica" (Women and Economic Crisis in Costa Rica), Revista de Ciencias Economicas (Costa Rica), Vol. XII, No. 2 (December, 1992), pp.3-29.
"The Performance of the Labor Market During
Recession and Structural Adjustment:
"Labor Market Segmentation and the Determination of Wages in the Public, Private-formal and Informal Sectors in San José, Costa Rica," Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 39, No. 3 (April, 1991), pp.585-606.
"Crisis económica y segmentación del mercado de trabajo en el aérea urbana de Costa Rica" (Economic Crisis and Segmentation in the Urban Labor Market in Costa Rica), Revista de Ciencias Economicas (Costa Rica), Vol. IX, Nos. 1 and 2 (January, 1989), pp. 79-94.
PUBLICATIONS - BOOK CHAPTERS
“The Distribution of Income in Central America,” (with Juan Diego Trejos of the University of Costa Rica), Chapter 3 in Diego Sanchez-Ancochea and Salvador Marti I Puig, Eds., Handbook of Central American Governance, Routledge Press, 2014, pp. 75-94.
"Promoting the Educational Success of Latin American Immigrant Children Separated from Parents During Migration," (with Sara Poggio of UMBC), Chapter 22 in Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang, Eds., Migration and Culture: Frontiers of Economics and Globalization Volume 8, Emerald Press, 2010, pp. 517-541.
"Women's Labor Force Participation and Earnings in Honduras" (with Carolyn Winter of the World Bank), in Case Studies on Women's Work and Pay in Latin America, edited by G. Psacharapolous and Z. Tzannatos, The World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1992, pp. 299-322.
"Why Men Earn More Than Women in Costa Rica," in Case
Studies on Women's Work and Pay in Latin America, edited by G. Psacharapolous and Z. Tzannatos,
The World Bank,
"Costa Rica" (with Albert Berry of the University of Toronto), in Labor Markets in an Era of Adjustment, Volume 2: Case Studies, edited by Sue Horton, Ravi Kanbur and Dipak Mazumdar, The World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1994, pp. 217-257.
"Segmentación
del mercado de trabajo en el aérea urbana de Costa Rica: una
evidencia de la
crisis económica" (Labor Market Segmentation in Urban
Costa Rica:
Evidence From the Economic
Crisis), in Progreso
Técnico y Estructura Económica: Dimensión Interna
y Comercio Internacional,
selected papers
presented at the
VIII Meetings of
the Latin
American Econometric Society,
edited by Juan
Rafael Vargas and Felix Delgado, published by Centro
de Economía Aplicada, San Jose,
1989, pp.141-189.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Better Jobs in Central America: The Role of Human Capital,” (with Sajitha Bashir and Ana Maria Oviedo of the World Bank), Policy Note, Human Development Department, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, Washington, April/May 2012. (Version en espanol)
“El Impacto de los
Salarios Minimos en el Mercado de Trabajo
de El
Salvador,” with Jose
Andres Oliva Cepeda and Alvero Triqueros Arquello (Fundación
Salvadoreña para El Desarrollo Económico y Social
(FUSADES), El Salvador), 2010.
“Improving Compliance with Legal Minimum Wages
in Costa
Rica,” with Juan Diego Trejos
(University of Costa
Rica), 2010. Version en espanol.
"Poverty and the Labor Market in Costa Rica," World Bank Policy Working Paper, 2007, April.
"Gaps in the Coverage of Social Security in Costa Rica," (with Inez Saenz of the University of Costa Rica), report to the International Social Security Association, 2002.
“Liberalizacion
Comercial, Expansion de la Educacion
y Desiguladad en
Costa Rica
(Trade Liberalization, Educational Expansion and Inequality in Costa
Rica),”
with Donald Robbins of the Universidad Javariana,
Colombia), Serie de Divulgacion
Economica #27, Institute for Research in
Economic
Science, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica, 1997.
"Maternity Leave Legislation and the Work and Pay of Women in Costa Rica" (with Maria Crummett of the University of South Florida), report to the Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, United States Agency for International Development, July, 1995.
"The Effects of Structural Adjustment on the Structure of Employment and Pay in Costa Rica: The Differential Impact by Gender," background paper for the 1995 Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Program, 1995.
"Women's Employment and Pay in Honduras" (with
Carolyn Winter of the World Bank), in Gender Discrimination in the
Labor
Market and The Role of the Law: Experiences in Six Latin American
Countries,
Confidential Draft Report No. 13201-LAC, Latin American and the
Caribbean Technical
Department, The World Bank, June 23, 1994.
"Women's Wages and Discrimination in Costa Rica," in Gender Discrimination in the Labor Market and The Role of the Law: Experiences in Six Latin American Countries, Confidential Draft Report No. 13201-LAC, Latin American and the Caribbean Technical Department, The World Bank, June 23, 1994.
"¿Por que las mujeres ganan menos que los hombres en Costa Rica?" (Why do Women Earn Less than Men in Costa Rica), Working Paper #164, Institute for Research in Economic Science, University of Costa Rica, January, 1993.
"Measuring the Impact of the Passage of
Anti-discrimination Legislation on Male and Female Wages in Latin
America:
Methodology and Results," report to the World Bank,
"Ingresos de las mujeres y crisis económica en Costa Rica" (Women's Earnings and Economic Crisis in Costa Rica), Working Paper #138, Institute for Research in Economic Science, University of Costa Rica, November, 1990.
"Existe segmentación en el mercado de trabajo urbano de Costa Rica?" (Does Segmentation Exist in the Urban Labor Market of Costa Rica?), Working Paper #92, Institute for Research in Economic Science, University of Costa Rica, May, 1986.
RESEARCH SUPPORT, FELLOWSHIPS AND SELECTED CONSULTANCIES
2013,
IDRC
(Canada) and FIDEG (Nicaragua), Women Moving In and Moving Up, Labor
Market
Dynamics of Women in Nicaragua and El Salvador (with Enrique Alaniz) .
2013,
MIPAR
Faculty Fellowship (UMBC), “The Costs and Benefits of the
Maryland Dream Act,” (with
Marvin Mandell).
2012,
World
Bank, “Better Jobs in Central America,” (Task Team Leader, Sashitha
Bashir).
2011,
World
Bank, resident consultant (while on sabbatical) for the project “Supporting Self-Employment and Small-Scale Entrepreneurship:
Creating and Improving Alternatives to Wage Employment,” Social
Protection and
Labor Section, Human Development Network.
2011,
IDRC
(Canada) and Instituto de Investigacion en Ciencias Economicas,
University of Costa Rica, Evaluation of the National Campaign for
Minimum Wages
(with Juan Diego Trejos).
2010-2011, World Bank, lead consultant for “Trends in Education
Quality and Labor Market Returns in Latin America: evidence from
household
surveys,” part of the World Bank study “Skills for the 21st
Century
in Latin America and the Caribbean”
(Task Team Leaders, Ian Walker and Cristián
Aedo).
2008, IDRC (Canada)
and FUSADES (El Salvador), "The Impact of Minimum Wages in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica" (with Alvaro
Trigueros, Juan Diego
Trejos, Alejandro Martinez Cuenca and
Katherine Terrell).
2008, MIPAR Faculty
Fellowship
(UMBC), “Are Hispanic Immigrants Saving the Economies of
America’s Small
Towns?” (with Dennis Coates).
2007, Spencer
Foundation Research
Grant, "Family separation and re-unification as a factor in the
educational success of immigrant children." (with
Sara Poggio).
2006, MIPAR Faculty
Fellowship
(UMBC), "Family separation and re-unification as a factor in the
educational success of immigrant children." (with
Sara Poggio).
2006, World Bank,
“Labor Markets
and Poverty in Costa Rica,” background paper for the Costa Rica
Poverty
Assessment (Task Team Leader, Andrew Mason).
2005, DFID (U.K.) and
Executive
Office of the Presidency of Honduras, “The Impact of Minimum
Wages in
Honduras.” (with Katherine Terrell)
2001, Fulbright
Lecture/Research
Award to Costa Rica, "Causes of Changing Income Inequality in Costa
Rica."
1995,
USAID, "Maternity Leave Legislation and
the Work and Pay of Women in Costa Rica" (with Maria Crummett
of the University of South Florida), report to the Bureau for Latin
America and
the Caribbean, United States Agency for International Development,
July, 1995.
1995, UNDP, "The
Effects of
Structural Adjustment on the Structure of Employment and Pay in Costa
Rica: The
Differential Impact by Gender.”
1993,
Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation
Research Grant,
"The Nine Year Compulsory Education Policy and the Development of
Human Resources in Taiwan" (with Marsha Goldfarb and Chun-chig Chang).
1992,
Fulbright Lecture/Research Award to Costa Rica, "Labor Market
Discrimination Against Women in Costa Rica."
1992, World
Bank, "Measuring the Impact of the Passage of
Anti-discrimination Legislation on Male and Female Wages in Latin
America.”
1989, World Bank,
“Structural
Adjustment and Labor Markets in Costa Rica,” (with Albert Berry).
SELECTED RECENT PRESENTATIONS (2012-2014)
“Self-employment in the Developing World”
o Nanjing University of Economics and Finance, Nanjing, China, November 2014
o IZA/World Bank Conference on Employment and Development, Lima, Peru, July 2014.
“Self-employment Earnings Differentials Around the World”
o IZA/World Bank Conference on Employment and Development, Lima, Peru, July 2014.
o World Bank Labor and Social Protection Brown Bag Seminar, June, 2014.
”The Consequences of Increased Enforcement of Legal Minimum Wages in a Developing Country: An Evaluation of the Campana Nacional de Salarios Minimos in Costa Rica”
o Conference on Reforming Minimum Wage and Labor Regulation Policy in Developing and Transition Economies, Center for the Study of Income Distribution, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, November, 2014.
o World Bank Labor and Social Protection Brown Bag Seminar, January 2013.
o Book launch, San Jose Costa Rica, May 2013.
o IDRC Workshop on Minimum Wages: Enforcement and Impact, Policy Implications of Global Experience, Delhi, India, November, 2012.
o UMBC Economics/Public Policy Seminar, September, 2012.
“Does Increasing the Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty in Developing Countries?”
o IZA World of Labor Launch at the IMF in Washington, November, 2013.
o IZA Workshop on Minimum Wages, Frankfurt, Germany, June 2013.
“Private and Government Fiscal Costs and Benefits of the Maryland Dream Act”
o Annual Conference of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis, Washington, February 2013
PH.D. STUDENTS--DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC POLICY
Liz Flow-Delwich, "Is More Better? Community College Developmental Math," 2012
Matea Pender, "Addressing the Needs of Racially/Culturally Diverse Student Populations in Higher Education: An Analysis of Educational Practices for Disadvantaged Youth," 2010
Julian Naidoo, "Aids and Crime in
John Mulaa,
"Social Capital and Education: The Case of Busia,
Carey Borkoski,
"Location Matters: Position in the Income Distribution and Workforce
Training," 2004.
David Muhlhausen,
"Proposed Analysis of the Office of Community Oriented Policing
Services
Grant Program,"2004.
Way Sun, “Human Resources
Policies and Labor
Market Outcomes in
Fisher Chang, “Evaluating the
Impact of
Mandatory Work Programs on Two-Parent Welfare Caseloads,”
1996.
Chun-chig
Chang,
"The Nine Year Compulsory Education Policy and the Development of Human
Resources in Taiwan (1950-1990)," 1991.
Rene Salgado, "International Economic
Organizations and Domestic Economic Policies: A Study of the
Relationships of
Colombia with the Economic Commission for Latin America, the World Bank
and the
International Monetary Fund," 1991.
M. A. STUDENTS--ECONOMIC POLICY ANALYSIS
Nitesh Kumar, "Determinants of the Effectibeness of Economic Sanctions," 2012
Chava Carter, "Do Moder Sultans Beget Black Swans? An Analysis of State Fragility in the Middle East and North Africa," 2012
Xiaotao (Florence) Ran, "Disparity of Educational Attainment among Hispanic Second-Generation Immigrants," 2011
Kaitlin McConnell, "The Impact of Combined Courses on Student Grades," 2009
Otgo Anderson, "The Impact of Full-Day Kindergarten on Student's Acadmic Achievment," 2008
Shoko Shimokoji, "Economic Growth, Trade Liberalization and Corruption," 2008
Xin Gao, "The Effect of
State-Funded Health Insurance for Immigrants on the Insurance Status of
Immigrants," 2007
Laura Ding, "Alcohol Taxes and Vehicle
Fatalities ," 2007
Nadwa Mossaad, "The Impact of Islam on Economic Growth: Evidence from Cross-Country Regressions," 2005.
Anna Perfilyeva, "Determinants of Remittances for Mexican Migrants in the United States," 2005.
Yang Guo,
“Male-female Wage Differentials in
Xiaoyan He, “The Employment Sector and Gender
Wage Gap in
Taiwan,” 2004.
Marie-Claire Guillard,
"Why Has