IRVIN ROJAS
Professor and researcher
cide, Mexico City
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, Davis. My primary fields of interest are development economics and applied econometrics. At CIDE I teach the undergraduate course on Microeconometrics and the graduate course on Evaluation of Social Programs.
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.
I am currently working on an evaluation of the fiscal policy changes and minimum wage increase at the Mexican border municipalities on employment and wages. Another ongoing project evaluates the effects of expected and unexpected income changes on economic outcomes and behavior of beneficiaries of the Mexican anti-poverty program PROSPERA. Finally, I am also developing an ex-ante evaluation to account for the effect of policy changes at Mexican urban centers on manufacture employment, their multiplier effects on jobs in the non-tradable sector, and their subsequent effect on poverty.
Other research projects I have pursued include an evaluation of the effects of food aid for refugees in Rwanda, the evaluation of a mix of policy interventions in the agricultural sector of Zambia, and a the test of 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.
I am currently working on an evaluation of the fiscal policy changes and minimum wage increase at the Mexican border municipalities on employment and wages. Another ongoing project evaluates the effects of expected and unexpected income changes on economic outcomes and behavior of beneficiaries of the Mexican anti-poverty program PROSPERA. Finally, I am also developing an ex-ante evaluation to account for the effect of policy changes at Mexican urban centers on manufacture employment, their multiplier effects on jobs in the non-tradable sector, and their subsequent effect on poverty.
Other research projects I have pursued include an evaluation of the effects of food aid for refugees in Rwanda, the evaluation of a mix of policy interventions in the agricultural sector of Zambia, and a the test of 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.
