Hugo Jales
Assistant Professor, Economics at Syracuse University

Biography
Syracuse University
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Degree
Specialties
Labor economics, econometrics
Personal Website
http://sites.google.com/site/hugoborgesjales/
Courses
Fall 2018
ECN 521.001 Economic Statistics, MoWe 3:45-5:05, Hall of Languages 214
ECN 451.001 Labor Economics, MoWe 5:15-6:35, Eggers 012
Biography
Hugo Jales is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Research. Before beginning his Ph.D., Hugo studied economics in Brazil at Fundacao Getulio Vargas and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. His main research interests are labor economics and applied econometrics. He is currently investigating the relationship between the minimum wage and unemployment, wage inequality, labor tax revenues, and the size of the informal sector. He has a paper forthcoming in the Advances in Econometrics, "Identification and Estimation Using a Density Discontinuity Approach." Full Biography
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Research Interests
Labor economics, econometrics
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