Anita Alves Pena, ASHE Vice President of Communications presents her work at the ASHE session at WEAI

Zadia Feliciano, chair and organizer of the first ASHE session at WEAI begins the session

Thank you to ASHE session participants at WEAI

ASHE sessions at WEAI

AEA Mentoring Program mentee, Ini-Abasi Umosen, presents her work "Do Students and Parents Prefer Same-Gender Teachers? Evidence from a Online Tutor Platform" in a CSWEP session at WEAI (Western Economic Association International).

Thanks to Fernando Lozano for the great comments in the American Society of Hispanic Economists sessions at the 2024 Western Economic Association International conference in Seattle!

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the American Society of Hispanic Economists dinner during the 2024 Western Economic Association International conference in Seattle - especially organizer Zadia Feliciano!

Hey, Emerging Scholars. Apply for the Center’s grant program for doctoral students and early career scholars aimed at supporting professional development activities that will enhance professional growth. Apply by August 21. hispanicresearchcenter.org/emerging-schol… #EmScholars #PhDchat

Pleased to welcome Fernando Lozano & Fenaba R. Addo as the new AEAMP Co-Directors today! It has been an honor for me to serve as AEAMP Co-Director these past years and I look forward to their leadership. Thank you to Dr. Trevon D Logan, Marie Mora, and all the AEAMP mentors & mentees

The AEA welcomes the new directors of the AEA Mentoring Program: Fenaba R. Addo (UNC-Chapel Hill-CH) and Fernando Lozano (Pomona College Economics). We thank outgoing directors Francisca Antman  (CU_Economics) and Dr. Trevon D Logan (Ohio State) for their years of service!

Thanks so much for highlighting my new paper with Jim Flynn "When Beer is Safer than Water: Beer Availability and Mortality from Waterborne Illnesses," just accepted at the Journal of Development Economics. Here is a link to the IZA discussion paper: iza.org/publications/d…

The American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) is accepting applications for three awards (Due 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰, 𝟱:𝟬𝟬 𝗽.𝗺 PT) 1. the ASHE Dissertation Award 2. the ASHE Teaching Award 3. the ASHE Service Award linkedin.com/posts/american… 📷

Estimating the long-run impacts of banning affirmative action in the US: Bans induce more racial and ethnic disparities among women. More ambiguous results are found for men, from Francisca Antman, Brian Duncan, and Michael F. Lovenheim nber.org/papers/w32778

My paper with Jim Flynn "When Beer is Safer than Water: Beer Availability and Mortality from Waterborne Illnesses" is now available at the Journal of Development Economics website here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jYsR15DRG7v…

The effects of anti-immigrant sentiment on willingness to identify as Mexican origin, using variation in voter support for Proposition 187 in California, from Francisca Antman and Brian Duncan nber.org/papers/w32818

So much looking forward to this year's Lectures on the Economics of Migration by a stellar line-up of speakers (incl Mushfiq Mobarak David McKenzie Jackie Wahba Francisca Antman Lídia Farré Sandra Rozo)! New this year: lectures will be streamed online. If you want to tune in, infos⏬

To celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, we will highlight the work of a Hispanic economist every day. Join us to celebrate the amazing research these ASHE members have done! Follow us in instagram at ashe_assa

Day 1: Dr. Adriana Kugler, member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She served as chief economist at U.S. Department of Labor, and was research associate at NBER & Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. She earned her PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley.

Day 3: Ignacio Esponda is a Professor of Economics at UC Santa Barbara. His main research areas are economic theory and experimental economics, and a lot of his work centers on misspecified learning. sites.google.com/view/ignacioes…

Day 4: Ivette Contreras is an Economist at The World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS).  Her research is focused on development economics, labor, and survey methods. She is an expert in the design and implementation of household surveys.