Dr. Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes is professor of economics at University of California, Merced, a Research Fellow at CReAM, FEDEA, GLO and IZA, an Advisory committee member of the Americas Center Advisory Council at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and the Western Representative in the Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics Professions (CSWEP) since 2015.

Her areas of interest include labor economics, international migration and remittances. She has published on contingent work contracts, the informal work sector, international remittances, as well as on immigrant savings, health care and labor market outcomes. Her work has been funded by the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), the Hewlett Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, among other agencies. She was the 2013-2014 Border Fulbright García-Robles Scholar, Department Chair at San Diego State University between 2015 and 2018, President of the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) in 2014, and has held visiting positions at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and at the Public Policy Institute of California.

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2005.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11612
published in: International Migration Review, 2021, 55 (1), 135-165.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11548
published as 'OPT policy changes and foreign born STEM talent in the U.S.' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101752
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11145
published as 'Immigration Enforcement and Children's Living Arrangements' in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019, 38 (1), 11-40
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10850
published as 'Split Families and the Future of Children: Immigration Enforcement and Foster Care Placements' in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 368-372
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10685
published in: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2019, 2, 109 - 120
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10144
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30(1): 339-73
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10030
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 158, 63-78.
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