Updated: June 2025
Contact info:
Centro de Estudios Economicos
El Colegio de Mexico
Carretera Picacho Ajusco 20
Col. Ampliacion Fuentes del Pedregal
14110 Mexico City
Email: laura.juarez@colmex.mx
STATUS
Mexican citizen, B1 U.S. Visa
FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION
Primary: Labor Economics
Secondary: Public and Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics
RESEARCH AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Director, Programa de Analisis Economico de Mexico, El Colegio de Mexico, March 2022-present
Associate Professor, Centro de Estudios Economicos, El Colegio de Mexico, March 2022-present
Assistant Professor, Centro de Estudios Economicos, El Colegio de Mexico, May 2017-February 2022
Undergraduate Coordinator, Centro de Estudios Economicos, El Colegio de Mexico, February 2018-July 2020
Research Economist, Direccion General de Investigacion Económica, Banco de Mexico, January 2013-April 2017
Assistant Professor, Centro de Investigación Económica,Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (CIE-ITAM), August 2006- Dec. 2012
Vising Fellow, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (UCSD), Sept. 2010-June 2011
Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, Introduction to Microeconomics, Summer 2004 and Fall 2005
Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2001-Spring 2004
Junior Economist, Centro de Análisis e Investigación Económica, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México(CAIE-ITAM), 2000-2001
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Economics, University of Texas at Austin, May 2006
M.S. Economics, University of Texas at Austin, May 2003
M.A. Economics, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Mexico City, June 2001
B.A. Economics, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Mexico City, May 2000
FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND MEMBERSHIPS
2nd place, Victor Urquidi Economics Prize, 2014
Member, National System of Researchers, Conacyt(SNI, level II), 2021-present
Member, National System of Researchers, Conacyt(SNI, level I), 2013-2020
Conacyt Research Grant for Young Researchers, 2007-2010
Honorary Mention, National Economics Prize, Banco Nacional de Mexico (Banamex), 2006
University Continuing Tuition Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 2005-2006
Hale Fellowship, Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin, Summer 2005
Conacyt Scholarship for Graduate Studies, 2003-2006
Member, Society of Labor Economists
Member, American Economic Association
Member, Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Association
PUBLICATIONS
1. "Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Labor Market Outcomes of Women with Children in Mexico", joint with Paula Villaseñor, Economía LACEA Journal, 23(1), p. 30–49. Available at: https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.438.
2. “The Impact of a Rural Clinic Expansion on the Fertility of Young Rural Women in Mexico”(2023) joint with Paulina Lopez, Review of Economics of the Household, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-023-09649-7
3. “Do Women Contribute More Effort than Men to a Real Public Good?” (2023) joint with Ingela Alger, Miriam Juarez-Torres, and Josepa Miquel-Florensa, World Bank Economic Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhac026
4. “Health Care and Education Access of Transnational Children in Mexico,” (2022) joint with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, funded by the Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center at SMU, Demography, 59 (2): 511–533.
5. “El efecto de las pensiones no contributivas sobre el bienestar subjetivo de los adultos mayores en México,” (2021, in Spanish) joint with Yunuen Nicte Rodríguez Piña, Estudios Económicos, 36(2), 279-327.
6. “Can Non-Contributory Pensions Decrease Food Vulnerability? The Case of Mexico” (2020), joint with Tobias Pfutze, Empirical Economics, 59, 1865–1882.
7. "Does Informal Risk Sharing Induce Lower Efforts? Evidence from Lab-in-the-Field Experiments in Rural Mexico" (2020), joint with Ingela Alger, Josepa Miquel-Florensa y Miriam Juárez, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 69:1, 107-171.
8. “The Effect of Non-Contributory Pensions on Savings in Mexico” (2019), joint with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Jorge Alonso, Economic Inquiry, 57: 931-952.
9. “Downward Wage Rigidities in the Mexican Labor Market 1996-2011” (2018), joint with Daniel Casarín de la Cabada, Economía the Journal of LACEA, vol. 19 no. 1, pp. 129-180.
10. “Opportunity versus Necessity: Understanding the Heterogeneity of Female Micro-Entrepreneurs” (2017), joint with Gabriela Calderon and Leonardo Iacovone, World Bank Economic Review, Volume 30, Issue Supplement_1, 1 March, Pages S86–S96.
11. “The Effect of a Transfer Program for the Elderly in Mexico City on Co-Residing Children’s School Enrollment” (2017), joint with Emilio Gutierrez and Adrian Rubli, World Bank Economic Review, Volume 31, Issue 3, 1 October, Pages 809–828.
12. “The Schooling Repayment Hypothesis for Private Transfers: Evidence from the Progresa/Oportunidades Experiment”, joint with Carlos Chiapa, Review of Economics of the Household, Vol.14, No. 4, pages 811–828.
13. “The Effects of a Non-Contributory Pension Program on Labor Force Participation: The Case of 70 y Mas in Mexico” (2015), joint with Tobias Pfutze, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 63, No. 4, pages 685-713
14. “Old-Age Government Transfers and the Crowding Out of Private Gifts: The 70 Plus Program for the Rural Elderly in Mexico” (2015), joint with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Southern Economic Journal. Vol. 81, Issue 3, pages 782–802.
15. “The Effect of an Old-Age Demogrant on the Labor Supply and Time Use of the Elderly and Non-Elderly in Mexico” (2010), B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Vol. 10: Issue 1, Article 48.
16. “Crowding Out of Private Support to the Elderly: Evidence from a Demogrant in Mexico”, Journal of Public Economics (2009), Elsevier, vol. 93(3-4), pages 454-463.
WORKING PAPERS
- "Midlife Crisis: The Labor and Health Impacts of the Menopause Transition", joint with Fernanda Marquez-Padilla.
- “Are Informal Workers Compensated for the Lack of Fringe Benefits? Using Free Health as an Instrument for Formality”, under revision.
WORK IN PROGRESS
“The Impact of Ridesharing on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence for Mexico”, joint with Pablo Derbez.
“Do Workers Value Formal Jobs? A Discrete Choice Experiment in Mexico”, joint with Raymundo Campos-Vazquez and Robert Duval
“Time Resources and Relative Power in the Family: Lessons from a Demogrant for the Elderly in Mexico”, joint with Manuel Chavez.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member, Editorial Committee, Estudios Económicos, El Colegio de México.
Member, Academic Editorial Committee, Otros Diálogos, El Colegio de México.
LAMES Program Committee, 2019 LACEA-LAMES conference.
Organizing Committee, 2015 Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), World Bank and Banco de México.
LAMES Program Committee, 2013 LACEA-LAMES conference.
Referee for Economic Inquiry, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, World Bank Economic Review, Economics of Education Review, World Development, Journal of Population Economics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Review of Economics of the Household, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Health Policy and Planning, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economica, Estudios Economicos, El Trimestre Económico.
LANGUAGES
English, Spanish