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Associate Professor
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Department of Economics
Syracuse University
Dr. Monica Deza is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Syracuse University. Dr. Deza received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California Berkeley in 2012, where her research interests include Economics of Crime and Risky Health Behaviors, Labor Economics and Economic Demography.
Dr. Deza’s research examines determinants of risky health behaviors among youth, particularly drug use and criminal behavior using empirical methods that run the gamut from quasi- experimental to structural. Dr. Deza’s research provides a means of better understanding the extent to which policies that are not specifically intended to decrease crime (e.g. education, access to mental health, labor markets, climate, among others) can have important and previously underappreciated positive spillovers.
Dr. Deza is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) program on Health Economics and a Research Affiliate at the Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorder, HCV, ad HIV (CHERISH).
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Mailing Address:
Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University
426 Eggers Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244-1020
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., May 2012, University of California Berkeley, Economics
Dissertation title: “Essays on Drug Use and Crime”
Advisor: David Card
B.A., May 2006, University of California Berkeley, Economics (Honors)
B.A., May 2006, University of California Berkeley, Applied Mathematics
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