Research

Research interests:

Climate Risk, Flood Insurance, Housing Markets

Labor Economics, Immigration Policy

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.