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Raquel Fernández (economist)

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'''Raquel Fernández''' is an economist and currently the Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Economics at [[New York University]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> She is also a [[List of fellows of the Econometric Society|Fellow of the Econometrics Society]].<ref> The Econometric Society|website=www.econometricsociety.org|access-date=2020-03-30}}</ref>

== Career and education ==
Fernández obtained a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in Economics from [[Princeton University]] in 1981 and a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D]] in from [[Columbia University]] in 1988. From 1987 to 1996, she was an Assistant and then Associate Professor at Boston University. In 1996, she joined New York University as an Associate Professor.<ref></ref> She is a Research Associate at the [[National Bureau of Economic Research|NBER]]<ref></ref>, a Fellow at the [[Centre for Economic Policy Research|CEPR]]<ref></ref> and a Research fellow a the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).<ref> IZA - Institute of Labor Economics|website=www.iza.org|access-date=2020-03-30}}</ref>

She was on the editorial board of the [[Journal of Economic Literature]].<ref></ref>

== Research ==
Her research focuses on [[economic inequality]], [[cultural economics]], [[development economics]], [[gender economics]] and [[sovereign debt]]. Her works have been cited over 12000 times<ref></ref> and she has published papers in the [[Quarterly Journal of Economics]],<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> [[The American Economic Review]]<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> and [[The Review of Economic Studies|the Review of Economics Studies]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

Her most cited paper,<ref></ref> "Resistance to reform: Status quo bias in the presence of individual-specific uncertainty"<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> with [[Dani Rodrik]] asks why politicians rarely adopt optimal policies as recommended by economists. The paper shows that policymakers have a bias for the status quo. The paper was later the object of a comment paper in 2003 by Antonio Ciccone.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

Her research has been featured in various media outlets including [[Los Angeles Times|The Los Angeles Times]],<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> [[New York Post|The New York Post]]<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> and the [[The New York Times]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

=== Selected works ===

* Fernandez, Raquel; Rodrik, Dani (1991). "Resistance to Reform: Status Quo Bias in the Presence of Individual- Specific Uncertainty". The American Economic Review. 81 (5): 1146–1155. ISSN 0002-8282
* Fernández, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra; Olivetti, Claudia (2004-11-01). "Mothers and Sons: Preference Formation and Female Labor Force Dynamics". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 119 (4): 1249–1299.
* Fernández, Raquel; Guner, Nezih; Knowles, John (2005-02-01). "Love and Money: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household Sorting and Inequality". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 120 (1): 273–344.
* Fernández, Raquel; Rogerson, Richard (1998). "Public Education and Income Distribution: A Dynamic Quantitative Evaluation of Education-Finance Reform". The American Economic Review. 88 (4): 813–833. ISSN 0002-8282.
* Fernández, Raquel (2013). "Cultural Change as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century". American Economic Review. 103 (1): 472–500. doi:10.1257/aer.103.1.472. ISSN 0002-8282.
* Fernandez, Raquel; Rogerson, Richard (1995-04-01). "On the Political Economy of Education Subsidies". The Review of Economic Studies. 62 (2): 249–262. doi:10.2307/2297804. ISSN 0034-6527.

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