Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes

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Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
NationalitySpanish
Academic career
Institutions San Diego State University
University of California, Merced
Alma mater Universidad de Granada
Universidad de Sevilla
Western Michigan University
Website sites.ucmerced.edu/amuedo-dorantes

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes is a Spanish economist, a Professor in the Economics and Business Management faculty at the University of California, Merced [1] and a Professor and Department Chair at San Diego State University. [2] Since 2015, she has been the Western Representative for a standing committee called the Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP). Her field of work focuses on the fundamentals of labour economics and international migration, particularly the nature of immigration policies and its impact on migrant's assimilation into the community at a state and local level. [2] Amuedo-Dorantes has published multiple articles in refereed journals including Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Population Economics, International Migration, and Journal of Development Economics. [3]

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Education and work

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes first earned a B.A. for the English Language at the University of Granada in 1986. Remaining in Spain, she also completed her B.A. for the French Language and Economics at University of Seville in 1992. Amuedo-Dorantes became an associate teacher for the department of Economic Theory and Political Economy upon completing her degrees. Following this, she moved to Michigan to complete her M.A. in Economics at Western Michigan University in 1995 and her Ph. D in Applied Economics three years later. In 2006, she got promoted from assistant professor to associate professor at the San Diego State University, and finally professor in 2006. Within this span of time, Amuedo-Dorantes was also elected as department chair of the Economics department until 2018. [3]

Since 2015, she has been a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and has published articles on Policy Assimilation and its implications for Fertility, Education, and Labor Supply. [4] She has also contributed to IZA World of Labor and has written on the topic of remittances. [5] As a board member of the Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP), she works to address the low representation of women in the Economics Profession and promotes the awareness of Women's issues in the field such as participation on editorial boards of Academic Journals. [6] Following her field of research, Amuedo-Dorantes also took on a research position at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) mainly focused on new methodological advances to assess policy issues. [7]

Research and selected publications

"Immigration Enforcement and Economic Resources of Children with Likely Unauthorized Parents" (2018)

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo, and Almudena Sevilla addressed the role of greater interior immigration enforcement in changing the likelihood of U.S. born children with a likely unauthorized parent to live a life in poverty through the change of economic sources. With focus on mix-status households, Amuedo-Dorantes et al. used household data from 2005 to 2011 American Community Survey (ACS) and found that with a one standard deviation increase in the intensity of the enforcement raised the overall likelihood of that U.S. born child with a likely unauthorized parent by a total of 4% and decreased income. Life in poverty can be defined as direct employment restrictions, fear of apprehension, and deportation in this context. One type of immigration law, police-based measures, particularly enhanced negative impacts of immigration enforcement on the economic resources, and increases overall poverty risk. [8]

"Welfare Reform and Immigrant Fertility" (2016)

Immigration policies had always been an important debate at the Government frontline. Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Susan L. Averett, and Cynthia A. Bansak obtained data from the Current Population Survey collected in 1994, 1995, 1998, and 2000 to examine whether immigrant women adjusted their childbearing as a response to how generous the Government was with its welfare benefits, following the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (PRWORA) which reduced immigrant eligibility and welfare participation. Amuedo-Dorantes et al. found that noncitizen that we're not offered state-level benefits, such as food assistance, had reduced fertility rate. [9]

"Accounting For Remittance and Migration Effects on Children's Schooling" (2010)

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo examined the relationship between remittances and family migration and its impact on children's school attendance in a study conducted in the Dominican Republic. Amuedo-Dorantes and Pozo chose the Dominican Republic for two reasons, various emigration and remittance-receiving patterns which allow for isolation between the remittance and migration effects. By obtaining from two samples, non-migrant and migrant households, they found that a 10% increase in remittances receipt increased children's school attendance by 3%. However, the overall effect of the remittance effect may disappears due to the overpowering negative impact of the migration effect in play. Amuedo-Dorantes and Pozo expanded on the hardships of emigration and its impact on children's responsibility within the household. It is believed that policies aimed to increase remittance flows would further improve the countries impacted by migration out of the country. [10]

"Labour Market Assimilation of Recent Immigrants in Spain" (2007)

Through the data of the 2001 population census and the 2002 Earnings Structure Survey for Spain, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Sara de la Rica examined immigrants' employment assimilation and assimilation occupation-wise of immigrants working in Spain. Increasing levels of immigration in Spain allowed Amuedo-Dorantes and Rica to successfully distinguish variations by gender, origin, and educational achievement of immigrant employment and occupational assimilation. Multiple findings were obtained:

  1. immigrant men and women were far less likely than local men and women to be employed,
  2. EU15 immigrants seemed to attain similar occupational patterns as natives while non-EU15 and their native counterparts were separated by an occupational attainment gap, and
  3. low-educated male immigrants and only males, reached a slower occupational assimilation than their counterparts. They emphasized on the importance of policy making and its impact for immigrants assimilation into the workforce through different filters. [11]

Additional published academic work

Awards and recognition

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  9. Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Averett, Susan L.; Bansak, Cynthia A. (2016-02-13). "Welfare reform and immigrant fertility". Journal of Population Economics. 29 (3): 757–779. doi:10.1007/s00148-016-0584-1. hdl: 10419/98987 . ISSN   0933-1433. S2CID   36994325.
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