Jorge De la Roca
Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy
New York University
139 MacDougal Street, 2nd Floor
New York, ny 10012
e-mail: [email protected]
website: http://jorgedelaroca.name
phone: (+1) 212.998.6384
fax:
(+1) 212.995.4313
Current employment
Research Fellow, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University 2012–
Education
PhD in Economics, cemfi, Spain 2008–2012
Title: Migration, self-selection and learning in cities.
Supervisor: Diego Puga
MPhil in Economics and Finance, cemfi, Spain 2006–2008
Bachiller en Economía, Universidad del Pacífico, Perú 1998–2002
Fields of interest
Urban Economics, Labour Economics, Economic Geography
Refereed articles
‘Wage cyclicality: Evidence from Spain using social security data’,
series: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5(2), August 2014: 173–195
‘Race and neighborhoods in the 21st century: What does segregation mean today?’ (with Ingrid
Gould Ellen and Katherine M. O’Regan),
Regional Science and Urban Economics 47, July 2014: 138–151
Working papers
‘Learning by working in big cities’ (with Diego Puga),
Discussion Paper 9243, Centre for Economic Policy Research
Revision requested in The Review of Economic Studies
‘City of dreams’ (with Gianmarco Ottaviano and Diego Puga)
Submitted
‘Selection in initial and return migration: Evidence from moves across Spanish cities’
Submitted
Work in progress
‘Are barrios good or bad? The impact of segregation on Latinos’ (with Ingrid Gould Ellen and
Justin Steil)
‘Business resilience and recovery from natural disasters in dense cities: The case of Hurricane
Sandy in New York City’ (with Ingrid Gould Ellen and Rachel Meltzer)
‘Are there upward inter-generational education spillovers on health? The influence of children
education on parental smoking cessation’ (with Erica Field)
Other publications
‘Desvinculado y desigual: Is segregation less harmful to Latinos?’ (with Ingrid Gould Ellen and
Justin Steil)
Forthcoming in American Academy of Political and Social Science
State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods (coauthored).
Annual Reports 2012, 2013, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University
‘Tax evasion and informality in Peru: An approximation using the consumption discrepancy
approach’ (with Manuel Hernández),
Economía y Sociedad. 2006. 62: 65–73
Research experience
Visiting Research Fellow, Brown University, Department of Economics, Spring 2011
Student Research Fellow, Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies (imdea), 2009–2011
Research Assistant, Center for International Development (cid), Harvard University, 2005
Research Assistant, International Food Policy Research Institute (ifpri), 2004
Research Assistant, Group for the Analysis of Development (grade), 2001–2004
Teaching experience
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Policy; ‘Microeconomics for Public Management, Planning
& Policy Analysis’ (2013–2014), ‘Urban Economics’ (2015); Wagner Graduate School of Public
Service, New York University
Honours
Nourallah Elghanayan Research Fellow, Furman Center, New York University 2013–2015
cemfi PhD Scholarship, 2008–2012
narsc Finalist in the graduate student paper competition, 2011
cemfi-Bank of Spain Full Master Scholarship, 2006–2008
cies Research Grant 2003 (awarded annually to young researchers)
Universidad del Pacífico highest ranking student in Economics, 2002
Conference presentations
Spanish Economic Association Meeting saee, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2014
Urban Economics Association Meeting uea, Washington, dc, 2014
appam Fall Research Conference, Albuquerque, nm, 2014
iii Workshop on Urban Economics ieb–ub, Barcelona, Spain, 2014
Urban Economics Association Meeting uea, Atlanta, ga, 2013
European Economics Association eea, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2013
Society of Labor Economics sole, Boston, ma, 2013
European Economic Association Meeting eea, Málaga, Spain, 2012
ii Workshop on Urban Economics ieb–ub, Barcelona, Spain, 2012
Spanish Economic Association Meeting saee, Málaga, Spain, 2011
Urban Economics Association Meeting uea, Miami, fl, 2011
European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association uea, Barcelona, Spain, 2011
European Economic Association Meeting eea, Glasgow, uk, 2010
Urban Economics Association Meeting uea, San Francisco, ca, 2009
Spanish Economic Association Meeting saee, Valencia, Spain, 2009
Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society lames, Panama City, Panama, 2003
Seminar presentations
Queens College, City University of New York, 2014
The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2014
usc Lusk Center for Real Estate, 2013
Philadelphia Federal Reserve, 2013
nyu Stern Urbanization Project, 2013
University of Mannheim, 2012
nyu Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, 2012
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona–Reus, 2012
Instituto de Economía de Barcelona ieb–ub, Barcelona, 2010
Spatial Economics Research Centre serc–lse, London, 2010
Universidad Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ulpgc, Las Palmas, 2010
upo/Bank of Spain Workshop on Income Inequality, Carmona, Seville 2010
Spatial Economics Research Centre serc–lse, London, 2009
Referee service
Demography, iza Journal of European Labor Studies, Journal of Economic Geography (3), Journal
of Regional Science (2), Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Urban
Economics (2), Regional Science and Urban Economics (3), The Review of Economics and
Statistics
Languages
English (fluent), Spanish (native), Italian (basic)
Memberships
Urban Economics Association, European Economic Association, The Society of Labor Economists
Citizenship
Peru
References
Diego Puga
cemfi
Casado del Alisal, 5
28014, Madrid
(+34) 914.290.551
[email protected]
Manuel Arellano
cemfi
Casado del Alisal, 5
28014, Madrid
(+34) 914.290.551
[email protected]
Last updated: December 2014
Ingrid Gould Ellen
New York University
Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
295 Lafayette Street
New York, ny 10012
(+1) 212.998.7533
[email protected]