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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