Short Bio
Dr. Anita Alves Pena is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Colorado State University. Her research interests are in public sector economics, labor economics, and economic development and her current research relates to undocumented and documented immigration, public policy, poverty, and agricultural labor markets. Dr. Pena received her Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 2007, M.A. in Economics from Stanford University in 2004, and B.A. in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University in 2001. She currently teaches Microeconomic Theory and Economics of Public Expenditure at the graduate level, as well as undergraduate Intermediate Microeconomics, Introduction to Econometrics, and Economics of Public Finance.Teaching
Econ 306: Intermediate Microeconomics (undergraduate)
Econ 320: Economics of Public Finance (undergraduate)
Econ 335: Introduction to Econometrics (undergraduate)
Econ 520: Public Economics I (graduate)
Working Papers
Immigration, Legal Status, and Public Aid Magnets: Evidence from Agricultural Labor previous version: Stanford Center for International Development Working Paper No. 331
The Effect of Continuing Education Participation on Agricultural Worker Outcomes
Do Minimum Wage Laws Affect People Who Are Not Covered?: Evidence from U.S. Agriculture
Poverty and the Binational Population: A Note on Poverty Measurement
Publications
Journal Articles
Undocumented Immigration and the Business of Farm Labor Contracting in the U.S.," forthcoming American Journal of Business, Special Issue \Immigration: Impacts on Business"
Economies of Scale and Gender Discrimination in Transition: The Case of the Republic of Tajikistan, forthcoming Applied Economics
Immigration, Legal Status, and Public Aid Magnets: Evidence from the U.S. Census, National Tax Association Proceedings, 102nd Annual Conference on Taxation (2011): 260-265
Poverty, Legal Status, and Pay Basis: The Case of U.S. Agriculture, Industrial Relations, Volume 49, Issue 3 (July 2010): 429-456 (previous version: Stanford Center for International Development Working Paper No. 377)
Legalization and Immigrants in U.S. Agriculture, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Volume 10, Issue 1 (Topics), Article 7 (2010) (previous version: Stanford Center for International Development Working Paper No. 348)
Locational Choices of the Legal and Illegal: The Case of Mexican Agricultural Workers in the U.S., International Migration Review, Volume 43, Number 4 (Winter 2009): 850-880 (previous version: Stanford Center for International Development Working Paper No. 332)
Book Chapters
Remittances and Undocumented Migration," forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
Economics of Migration (with Steven J. Shulman), in 21st Century Economics: A Reference Handbook, SAGE Publications, 2010
Edited Volume
Policy Reform and Chinese Markets (with Belton M. Fleisher, Nicholas C. Hope, and Dennis Tao Yang), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008
Other
The Effect of Continuing Education Participation on Agricultural Worker Outcomes, United States Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Occasional Paper 2011-14, May 9, 2011
Economic Implications of Labor and Immigration Policy: The Case of Greeley’s Swift Plant (with Dawn Thilmany McFadden and Jessica Hernandez), April 2009 Agricultural Labor Report No. 2, Colorado State University, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics – Extension
Agricultural Labor in Colorado: Has Recent Immigration and Labor Policy Resulted from Colorado’s Employment Trends? (with Dawn Thilmany McFadden and Jessica Hernandez), April 2009 Agricultural Labor Report No. 1, Colorado State University, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics – Extension
Poverty Research Flash 2009-02: Poverty, Legal Status, and Pay Basis in U.S. Agriculture, West Coast Poverty Center, University of Washington, 2009
The Economic Contribution of Colorado’s Green Industry (with Dawn Thilmany, Jessica Hernandez, and Phil Watson), Green Industries of Colorado (GreenCO), 2008
Links
CSU-FTU Vietnam Economics Curriculum Project
Stanford Center for International Development
The National Agricultural Workers Survey
Updated: January 2012