Raquel Fernández is an economist and currently the Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Economics at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

. She is also a

fellow of the Econometric Society In the scientific discipline of economics, the Econometric Society is a learned society devoted to the advancement of economics by using mathematical and statistical methods. This article is a list of its (current and in memory) fellows. Fellows ...

Career and education

Fernández obtained a

B.A. Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four yea ...

in economics from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

in 1981 and a

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in from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

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. She is a research associate at the

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, a fellow at the

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and a research fellow at the

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. She was on the editorial board of the

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Research

Her research focuses on

economic inequality There are wide varieties of economic inequality, most notably income inequality measured using the distribution of income (the amount of money people are paid) and wealth inequality measured using the distribution of wealth (the amount of we ...

cultural economics __NOTOC__ Cultural economics is the branch of economics that studies the relation of culture to economic outcomes. Here, 'culture' is defined by shared beliefs and preferences of respective groups. Programmatic issues include whether and how mu ...

development economics Development economics is a branch of economics which deals with economic aspects of the development process in low- and middle- income countries. Its focus is not only on methods of promoting economic development, economic growth and structural ...

, gender economics and

sovereign debt A country's gross government debt (also called public debt, or sovereign debt) is the financial liabilities of the government sector. Changes in government debt over time reflect primarily borrowing due to past government deficits. A deficit oc ...

. Her works have been cited over 12000 times and she has published papers in the

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and the Review of Economics Studies. Her most cited paper, "Resistance to reform: Status quo bias in the presence of individual-specific uncertainty" with

Dani Rodrik Dani Rodrik (born August 14, 1957) is a Turkish economist and Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was formerly the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of th ...

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. Her research has been featured in various media outlets including

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and

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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.

References

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