Mónica García-Pérez

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I am a Professor of Economics at St. Cloud State University (SCSU) in St. Cloud, MN. Currently, I am a Visiting Senior Faculty at the S.B. Cook Center of Social Equity at Duke University, where I am working on my research, designing new projects on structural racism and health, and leading the teaching of the course on Research Methods on Social Inequality. I am also teaching Microeconomics as a Policy Tool at the Sanford School of Public Policy - Duke University.

I am a health/labor economist who specializes in research on the role of public policies on social mobility, immigrant assimilation, discrimination, and the reduction of the impact of health shocks on wealth among minority groups. My research also looks at the intergenerational effects of barriers to access to health care and health coverage across race/ethnicity and nativity.