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Professor of Economics at University of California Merced
Dr. Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes is professor of economics at University of California, Merced, and a Research Fellow at CReAM, FEDEA, GLO and IZA. She also serves as member of the Advisory Council of the Americas Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, as Executive Committee Member of UC Merced Community and Labor Center, and as member of the Advisory Board of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Institute. Her areas of interest include labor economics, international migration, immigration policy and remittances. She has published on contingent work contracts, the informal work sector, international remittances, as well as on immigrant assimilation and the impact of immigration policies on migrants and the communities where they reside. Her work has been funded by the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), the Hewlett Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, among other agencies.