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Francisco Rivera-Batiz
International Affairs Building, Room 1033
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-6982
Fax: 212-854-8059
flr9@columbia.edu
Biography:
Professor Francisco Rivera-Batiz joined the faculty of Columbia University for the first time in 1991 as an associate professor of economics and education at Teachers College, Department of International and Transcultural Studies, and as the director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education until 1995. From 1997 to 1999, he served as the director of the Latino Studies Program at the university, and from 1996 to 2002 he was the director of the Program in Economic Policy Management (PEPM) at the School of International and Public Affairs. He continues as a PEPM faculty member and affiliated professor of the Executive MPA Program.
Professor Rivera-Batiz has published in the fields of development and international economics, education, ethnic studies, and migration issues. Among his latest publications are "Education and Economic Development in Puerto Rico," with H. Ladd in The Puerto Rican Economy: Prospects for Growth, edited by B. Bosworth and S. Collins (Brookings Institution 2005); "NewYorktitlan: The Socioeconomic Status of Mexican New Yorkers," in Regional Labor Review (Winter-Spring 2004); "The Impact of School-to-Work Programs on Youth Employment and Student Outcomes," in The School to Work Movement: Origins and Destinations, edited by W. Stull and N. Sanders (Praeger 2003); "Democracy, Governance and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence," in Review of Development Economics (June 2002); Tigers in Distress: The Political Economy of the East Asian Crisis and its Aftermath, coedited with A. Lukauskas (Edward Elgar Publishers 2001); "International Financial Liberalization, Corruption and Economic Growth" in Review of International Economics (November 2001); "Undocumented Workers in the Labor Market: An Analysis of the Earnings of Legal and Illegal Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.," in Journal of Population Economics (February 1999); "Underground in American Soil: Undocumented Workers and U.S. Immigration Policy" in Journal of International Affairs (Spring 2000); Island Paradox: Puerto Rico in the 1990s, with C. Santiago (Russell Sage Foundation 1996); International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics, Second Edition, with L. Rivera-Batiz (Prentice Hall 1994); and many others.
Currently, Rivera-Batiz is executive director of the International Migration Project at the Columbia University Law School, managing editor of the New York Latino Research Clearinghouse at Teachers College, associate editor of the Review of Development Economics, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Policy Reform and the International Trade Journal. He has been a member of a range of advisory boards and professional committees. Among them are the International Advisory Board; International Development Program; Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain (2004–present); International Advisory Council; Indian Institute of Finance, Delhi, India (2000–present); Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession; American Economic Association (2000–03); editorial advisory board of The Latino Review of Books (1995–2000); editorial advisory board of Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy (1996–99); coexecutive director of the Commission on Planning for Enrollment Growth, New York City Board of Education (1994–95); and board of directors of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, New York (1992–95).
Professor Rivera-Batiz received a BA from Cornell University in 1975 and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979. He has previously held teaching or research positions at Indiana University, the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, University of Massachusetts, and Rutgers University. He has received postdoctoral fellowships from the Ford Foundation in 1982–83 and Educational Testing Service in 1988–89. He was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in 2003–04.