Mónica Rodríguez-Guevara

Mónica Rodríguez-Guevara

Economics PhD

University of California, Davis

Biography

I am an Applied Macroeconomist studying the effect of fiscal policies on economic activity and the income distribution.

Interests

  • Applied Macroeconomics
  • Public Finance
  • Labor Economics

Education

  • PhD in Economics, 2023

    University of California, Davis

  • MSc in Economics, 2014

    The London School of Economics and Political Science

  • BA in Economics, 2012

    Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Research

Working Papers

  • Distributional effects of income taxes in the US using narrative series.

  • Do mean-tested transfers affect local economic activity? Evidence from housing vouchers.

  • Spillover effects of income taxes across income groups.

Other Work

  • Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars - with Pascaline Dupas, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Justin Wolfers, and the rest of The Seminar Dynamics Collective. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28494, May 2021.

  • Intergenerational Mobility and Equality of Opportunity in Mexico. LSE Master’s thesis, May 2014.

  • Nonfundamentalness in SVARs, Revisiting a Classic Demand and Supply Model. ITAM Undergraduate thesis, 2012.

Teaching

Instructor

  • Topics in Labor Economics (UC Davis)

Teaching Assistant

Graduate Courses

  • Teaching Economics for Graduate Students (UC Davis PhD course)

  • Economics for Public Policy (UC Berkeley MPA course)

  • Inferential Statistics for Policy Makers (UC Berkeley MPA course)

Undergraduate Courses

  • Macroeconomics courses (UC Davis): Principles, Intermediate, Advanced Topics, Development Economics

  • Microeconomics courses (UC Davis): Public Economics, Public Policy, Labor Economics

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