RUBéN IRVIN ROJAS VALDéS
Short bio
I am an Assistant Professor of economics at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE in Spanish) at Mexico City. I received my Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Davis. My primary fields of interest are development economics and applied econometrics.
I am also a Faculty Associate at Cornell University's DEEP-GREEN-RADAR and TREESPEAR research groups, where I held a Visiting Fellow appointment.
For my Ph.D. dissertation, I analyzed the dynamic and strategic migration, labor market participation, and schooling decisions of individuals and households in rural Mexico using reduced-form and structural econometric models.
Other research projects I have pursued include an evaluation of the effects of food aid for refugees in Rwanda, and an ongoing project that tests recent theory on the role of hope in development economics by inducing a treatment aimed to modify the aspirations and goals of a group of micro finance users in Oaxaca, Mexico.
I have worked as consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. I hold a bachelor's degree in Agricultural Economics from Universidad Autónoma Chapingo and a master's degree in Economics from El Colegio de México.
I am also a Faculty Associate at Cornell University's DEEP-GREEN-RADAR and TREESPEAR research groups, where I held a Visiting Fellow appointment.
For my Ph.D. dissertation, I analyzed the dynamic and strategic migration, labor market participation, and schooling decisions of individuals and households in rural Mexico using reduced-form and structural econometric models.
Other research projects I have pursued include an evaluation of the effects of food aid for refugees in Rwanda, and an ongoing project that tests recent theory on the role of hope in development economics by inducing a treatment aimed to modify the aspirations and goals of a group of micro finance users in Oaxaca, Mexico.
I have worked as consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. I hold a bachelor's degree in Agricultural Economics from Universidad Autónoma Chapingo and a master's degree in Economics from El Colegio de México.
