Education
Ph.D. Economics, Cornell University, 1994
Selected publications
“Can the Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty and Inequality in the Developing World?
World Development, February 2021.
Growth with redistribution: Did Brazil show the way?, Journal of Economic Inequality, December 2019
“Fetal origins of diabetes and ill health: Evidence from Puerto Rico’s 1928 and 1932 Hurricanes,” Economics and Human Biology, July 2013.
Ongoing research
Bobonis, Gustavo J., Orlando Sotomayor, and Jessica Wagner. Understanding the Consequences of School Consolidation: Evidence from Puerto Rico.
Bobonis, Gustavo J., Philip Oreopoulos, Orlando Sotomayor, and Román A. Zárate. Adopting Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) at Scale: Training and Supporting Teachers and Families to Use CAL Technologies in Puerto Rico Public Schools.
Opinion
Nexo
Pobreza, escolaridade, salário mínimo e distribuição de renda no Brasil
Forbes
Puerto Rico’s Only Way Out Of Its Debt Mess Is Growth–Good Luck With That
Puerto Rico Imposed Rich-Country Policies–And Now It Is Paying The Price
A Debt Deal In Puerto Rico, But It Isn’t The People Who Are Celebrating

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