Jose Lopez

Education

• Ph.D. Economics - University of Chicago - 2014
• M.A. Economics - University of Chicago - 2010
• M.Sc. Economics - University of Texas at El Paso - 2004
• Licenciatura Economics - Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León - 2002

Areas of research:

• Economic growth, development, public finance, labor, law and economics

Areas of teaching:

• Macroeconomics, economic growth, economic development, international economics.

Publications:

• “Civil Rights Enforcement and the Racial Wage Gap,” with Jamein Cunningham, AEA Papers & Proceedings,
• vol. 111, 196–200, May 2021.
• “Size-Dependent Policies, Talent Misallocation, and the Return to Skill,” with Jesica Torres, Review of
• Economic Dynamics, vol. 38, 59–93, October 2020.
• “Advertising for Consideration,” with Carmen Astorne-Figari and Aleksander Yankelevich, Journal of
• Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 157, 653–669, January 2019.
• “Financial Frictions and Aggregate Productivity: Evidence from Mexico,” Quarterly Review of Economics
• and Finance, vol. 66, 294–301, November 2017.
• “A Quantitative Theory of Tax Evasion,” Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 53, 107–126, September 2017.
• “An Evaluation of Real-time Forecasting Performance across 10 Western U.S. States,” with Keith R. Phillips,
• Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, vol. 34, No. 2-3, 2009.
• “Error Correction Exchange Rate Modeling for Mexico: 1980-2001,” with Thomas M. Fullerton, International
• Journal of Applied Econometrics and Quantitative Studies, Vol.2-3, 2005.

Working papers:

• "A Jury of One’s Peers: The Effect of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 on Jury Trials”
• “Surgeons’ Response to Reimbursement Changes for Alternative Procedures: Evidence from Spine Fusion in
• the U.S.,” with Nicholas Benson
• “Modeling Progressive Taxation”
• “Entrepreneurship and Rent Seeking under Credit Constraints”

Work in progress:

• “Civil Rights Enforcement and Intergenerational Mobility among Minorities," with Jamein Cunningham.
• “Racial Divisions and Police Violence," with Jamein Cunningham.
• “Lynchings and the Enforcement of Civil Rights", with Carl Magnus Bjuggren, Jamein Cunningham, and
• Jhacova Williams.
• “Court Partisanship and Civil Rights Case Outcomes,” with Jamein Cunningham