CV GoogleScholar Econofact IZAPapers
Rankings: All Economists, Human Migration
Research statements: Migration, Climate risk and sustainability
Research interests:
Climate Risk, Flood Insurance, Housing Markets
Labor Economics, Immigration Policy
To Improve Is to Change? The Effects of Risk Rating 2.0 on Flood Insurance Demand (joint with Ivan Petkov). Accepted. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Shattered Dreams: The Economic Impact of Eliminating DACA (joint with Phillip Connor). R&R (2nd) at Journal of Population Economics
When the Water Recedes and Home Prices Don't: Flood Risk Learning and Neighborhood Spillovers (joint with F. Peñaranda and S. Taspinar).
Are NFIP Reforms Increasing Flood Risk Exposure in Low-income Areas? (joint with J. L. Cruz)
The Return of Nativism: the economic effects of migrant deportations (joint with P. Connor, J. Cravino, A. Levchenko, N. Pandalai-Nayar)
For a full list of publications, see my CV.
Climate Risk and Sustainability
Ortega, F., Taspinar, S., 2018. Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Property Values: Hurricane Sandy and New York’s Housing Market. Journal of Urban Economics, 106, pages 81-100.
Indaco, A., Ortega, F., Taspinar, S., 2019. The Effects of Flood Insurance on Housing Markets. Cityscape, Volume 21, Number 2, pages 129-156.
Indaco, A., Ortega, F., Taspinar, S., 2021. Hurricanes, flood risk and the economic adaptation of businesses. Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 21:4, pages 557-591, July 2021.
Indaco, A., Ortega, F., 2024. Adapting to Climate Risk? Local Population Dynamics in the United States. Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, Volume 8, pages 61-106.
Petkov, I., Ortega, F. 2025. Learning from experience: Flooding and insurance take-up in the flood zone and its periphery. Journal of Risk and Insurance, 1-45. Working paper.
Immigration
Ortega, F., Peri, G., 2014. Openness and income: the roles of trade and migration. Journal of International Economics, vol. 92(2).
Di Giovanni, J., Levchenko, A., Ortega, F., 2015. A Global View of Cross-border Migration. Journal of the European Economic Association, Issue 13-1, February 2015.
Hsin, A., Ortega, F., 2017. The Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented Students: Evidence from a Large Public University, Demography, volume 55, issue 4, pages 1487-1506.
Olivieri, S., Ortega, F., Rivadeneira, A., Carranza, E., 2021. Shoring up economic refugees: Venezuelan migrants in the Ecuadoran labor market. Migration Studies, Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2021, Pages 1590-1625.
Ortega, F., Hsin, A., 2022. Occupational Barriers and the Labor Market Penalty from Lack of Legal Status. Labour Economics, 76.
Mayda, A., Ortega, F., Peri, G., Sparber, C., Shih, K., 2023. Coping with H-1B Shortages: Firm Performance and Mitigation Strategies. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. &6(5), pages 919-943.
Furtado, D., Ortega, F., 2023 (online). Do Immigrant Inflows Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes? Journal of Human Resources. DOI: 10.3368/jhr.0720-11063R2. Working paper.
CV GoogleScholar Econofact IZAPapers
Rankings: All Economists, Human Migration
Research statements: Migration, Climate risk and sustainability