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145: Marie Mora on Puerto Rican Socioeconomic Outcomes in the US and the AEA Mentoring Program

June 24, 2018 by Frank

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145: Marie Mora on Puerto Rican Socioeconomic Outcomes in the US and the AEA Mentoring Program


Marie Mora is professor of economics at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Previously, she served as professor of economics at the University of Texas–Pan American and associate professor of economics at New Mexico State University.

Professor Mora serves as director of the National Science Foundation-funded American Economic Association Mentoring Program and has served on the board of the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession.

She also served two terms as a member of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Data Users Advisory Committee, two terms as president of the American Society of Hispanic Economists and was a member of the Dallas Fed’s Texas Border Colonias Study Steering Committee and the Early Education Subcommittee of the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Committee.

Her recognitions include the Outstanding Support of Hispanic Issues in Higher Education Award from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education and the Cesar Estrada Chavez Award from the American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity.

Marie Mora was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ San Antonio Branch in 2018.

She has co-authored a number of books Population, Migration, and Socioeconomic Outcomes of Island and Mainland Puerto Ricans and Hispanic Entrepreneurs in the 2000s.

Economists:

In this episode, Marie mentions: Jeremy Bentham, Paul Douglas, Joan Robinson, Alberto Dávila and Darrick Hamilton.

Links:

  1. American Society of Hispanic Economists
  2. AEA Mentoring Program supported by the National Science Foundation.

Papers

Check out selected papers by Professor Mora at her faculty profile page.

Books

  • Population, Migration, and Socioeconomic Outcomes of Island and Mainland Puerto Ricans: La Crisis Boricua by Marie Mora, Alberto Dávila and Havidán Rodríguez.
  • Hispanic Entrepreneurs in the 2000s by Marie Mora and Alberto Dávila.
  • The Economic Status of the Hispanic Population co-edited/co-authored by Marie Mora and Alberto Dávila.
  • Labor Market Issues along the U.S.-Mexico Border co-edited/co-authored by Marie Mora and Alberto Dávila.
  • The Politics of Hispanic Education by Kenneth J. Meier and Joseph Stewart, Jr.
  • Latinos/as in the United States: Changing the Face of América Editors: Rodriguez, Havidan, Saenz, Rogelio, Menjivar, Cecilia (Eds.)

 

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100: Emily Skarbek on the Economics of Natural Disasters and the Samaritan’s Dilemma

August 25, 2016 by Frank

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100: Emily Skarbek on  the Economics of Natural Disasters and the Samaritan’s Dilemma

Dr. Emily Skarbek is a Lecturer in Political Economy at King’s College London.Emily Skarbek Economic Rockstar

Emily’s research examines the role of voluntary associations in solving complex public goods problems after natural disasters.

Her empirical approach is three-pronged, drawing on archives, historical sources, and field-work following large-scale natural disasters.

In addition, Emily has a passion for the history of economic thought, which she believes can play a key role in advancing contemporary debates. She is particularly interested in the epistemic arguments of Friedrich Hayek.

In 2014, Emily was awarded the annual Gordon Tullock prize for best article published in Public Choice by a junior scholar. She is also a contributing author to several books including After Katrina: The Political Economy of Disaster and Community Rebound and Hayek and the Modern World.

Dr. Skarbek received her PhD in Economics from George Mason University and was previously an Assistant Professor at San Jose State University and a Fellow at the Center for History of Political Economy at Duke University.

Emily blogs at EconLog, one of the world’s leading economics blogs. For more on Dr. Skarbek, visit her website www.emilyskarbek.com or follow her on twitter @EmilySkarbek.

Economics:

In this episode, Emily discusses and mentions: natural disasters, political incentives and the Samaritan’s Dilemma.

Economists:

In this episode, Emily discusses and mentions: David Skarbek, Elinor Ostrom, Emily Chamlee-Wright, Virgil Storr, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, William Easterly, Claudia Williamson, James Buchanan, Daniel Kahneman, Peter Leeson and Diane Coyle.

Dr. Emily Skarbek’s Tips on Writing:

  1. Write about what you are passionate about.
  2. Ask interesting questions.
  3. Get feedback and be open to the harshest critics or actively seek criticism.

Festival:

  • Festival of Economics 2016: Bristol Festival of Ideas

Papers:

  • Skarbek, E. (2016). Aid, Ethics, and the Samaritan’s Dilemma: Strategic Courage in Constitutional Entrepreneurship, Journal of Institutional Economics 12(2): 371-393.
  • Skarbek, E. (2014). The Chicago Fire of 1871: A Bottom Up Approach to Disaster Relief, Public Choice  160(1): 155-180.
  • Skarbek, E. (2010). Coordinating the Reconstruction of Haiti, Journal of International Peace Operations 6(2) 2010: 25-27.
  • Easterly, W. & Williamson, C. R. (2011). Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices, World Development Vol. 39, No. 11, pp. 1930–1949.

Where to Find Emily Skarbek:

Website: www.emilyskarbek.com

Twitter: @EmilySkarbek

Books:

  • The political economy of Hurricane Katrina and community rebound by Emily Chamlee-Wright and Virgil Henry Storr (Eds.).
  • Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship (Perspectives from Social Economics) by Virgil Henry Storr, Stefanie Haeffele-Balch, Laura E. Grube

  • The Fable of the Bees by Bernard Mandeville
  • Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
  • Individualsim and Economic Order by F. A. Hayek
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