Education
Ph.D. Economics
Cornell University, 1994
Selected publications
“Can the Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty and Inequality in the Developing World?
World Development, 2020.
Growth with redistribution: Did Brazil show the way?, Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019
“Fetal origins of diabetes and ill health: Evidence from Puerto Rico’s 1928 and 1932 Hurricanes,”
Economics and Human Biology, July 2013.
Unpublished Manuscripts
Can the minimum wage reduce poverty and inequality in the developing world? Evidence from Brazil, 1995-2015
Minimum wages, public transfers, and development in Puerto Rico
The pathways from medical insurance to health: Evidence from Medicare

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