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Publications
High Speed Internet and the Widening Gender Gap in Adolescent Mental Health: Evidence from Hospital Records
with Daniel Fernandez-Kranz and Natalia Nollenberger
Journal of Health Economics, August 2025
Media coverage: Brookings, VoxEU, Nada es gratis , the74

​Immigration Policies, Backlash, and School Bullying
with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2024

​Police Trust and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Immigration Policies
with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Journal of Economic Geography, 2022
Media coverage: Brookings, Real Clear Markets, The Washington Post, Border Criminologies

Immigration Policy and Fertility: Evidence from Undocumented Migrants in the U.S.
with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,Volume 189, September 2021
previous title: U.S. Immigration Policy and Immigrant Fertility

Immigration Enforcement and the Hiring of Low Skilled Labor
with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Bernhard Schmidpeter.
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, Vol.111, May 2021

Intimate Partner Violence under Forced Coexistence and Economic Stress: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic
with Daniel Fernandez Kranz and Natalia Nollenberger.
Journal of Public Economics,
Volume 194, February 2021, 104350
Media coverage: Nada es Gratis
previous title: Can’t Leave You Now! Intimate Partner Violence under Forced Coexistence and Economic Uncertainty

Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?
with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Chunbei Wang.
Journal of Public Economics, vol.190, October 2020, 104242
Watch the presentation


Labor Market Impacts of States Issuing of Driver Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants
with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Almudena Sevilla.
Labour Economics. vol.63. April 2020

Immigration Enforcement and Children's Living Arrangements
with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes.
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 38, No. 1, 11-40, 2019
Interview by APPAM

Split Families and the Future of Children: Immigration Enforcement and Foster Care Placements
with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes.
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, vol.108, May 2018. pp.368-72
In the Media: Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Immigration Enforcement and Economic Resources of Children with Likely Unauthorized Parents
with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Almudena Sevilla
Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 158, February 2018, Pages 63-78.

A macro-economic model to forecast remittances based on Monte-Carlo simulation and artificial intelligence
with Carlos García-Alonso and Gabriel Pérez-Alcalá.
Expert Systems with Applications Volume 39, Issue 9, Pages 7929-7937, 2012


Working papers
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Spillover Effects of Immigration Policies on Children's Human Capital
with Bernhard Schmidpeter
R&R JHR
Blog post: Border Criminologies


Low-Wage Jobs, Foreign-Born Workers, and Firm Performance
with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes,  Parag Mahajan and  Bernhard Schmidpeter 
​R&R JHR

The Impact of Non-Mandatory Police Reporting on Domestic Violence

Demand for Green Skills in an Evolving Landscape
​ with Friederike Mengel,  Bernhard Schmidpeter and Michel Serafinelli

Empowered Mothers, Empowered Generations: The Impact of Women's Economic Rights​
with Elisabeth Wurm

“The Queen of Inventions”:How Home Technology Shaped Women’s Work and Children’s Futures

Research in Progress

  • Voter Gender and Support for Female Candidates: Evidence from Administrative Data in Ecuador
    with  Brian Knight,  Luis Martinez and Ana Maria Tribin 
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The Hidden Workforce: Making Women's Work Visible
with Chen Lin
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Shaping Policy Without the Vote: Women’s Clubs and the Rise of American Kindergartens
with Francesco Ferlenga

Worker-Level Responses to Immigration
with Parag Mahajan and  Bernhard Schmidpeter  

Does Female Leadership Change Firms? Evidence from CEO Gender Transitions
with Bernhard Schmidpeter

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Others
 Immigration Policies and School Bullying
with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Book Chapter in 
Migration, Human Capital and the Labor Market, 53B, Benjamin Elsner, Solomon W. Polachek

Apertura de los mercados de trabajo a los inmigrantes: impacto sobre las empresas y los trabajadores 
 La Inmigración en España: Retos, Impacto y Políticas, Raquel Carrasco and Raymond Torres, Ed. Funcas Estudios de la Fundación. Serie Economía y Sociedad. 2026

The Speed of Fright: Sharing EU migration research in a flash
ERSC Festival of Social Sciences, November 2018


Understanding the Consequences of Heightened Interior Immigration Enforcement with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes. in:
The Human and Economic Implications of Twenty-First Century Immigration Policy Susan Pozo, editor. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2018.


On the Piecemeal Approach to Immigration Enforcement: Evidence from the United States with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes. Refugees and Economic Migrants: Facts, policies and challenges Ed.Fassani CEPR Press, 2016


Large Scale Knowledge-Based Simulation Models: An Approximation to the North-South Remittances Model. With Carlos García Alonso and Gabriel Pérez Alcalá. Proceeding of the 2009 Winter Simulation Conference M. D. Rossetti, R. R. Hill, B. Johansson, A. Dunkin and R. G. Ingalls, eds. 3077-3087, 2009



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