
Faculty: Alberto Ortega
Selected Works:
Reports and Publications:
Selected Works:
- “Flipping the Script: The Effect of Opioid Prescription Monitoring on Specialty-Specific Provider Behavior,” (with Alice Ellyson and Jevay Grooms), Health Economics (2021)
- “Distance Learning and Parental Mental Health During COVID-19,” (with Cassandra Davis, Jevay Grooms, Joaquin Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba, and Edward Vargas), Educational Researcher, (2020)
- “Trade Liberalization and Racial Animus,” (with Ema Di Fruscia and Bryn Louise) Contemporary Economic Policy, (2020)
- “State Partisanship and Higher Education,” Economics of Education Review, 76: 101977, (2020)
- “Examining Medicaid Expansion and the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders," (with J. Grooms), AEA Papers and Proceedings, 109: 187-92 (2019)
Reports and Publications:
- “Substance Use Disorders among Older Populations: What role does race and ethnicity play in treatment and completion?” (forthcoming) Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment (with Jevay Grooms)
- “The telling connection between affirmative action litigation, the racial composition of U.S. police forces, and the level of police killings of civilians,” Washington Center for Equitable Growth. December 2 (2021): 2021. (with Robynn Cox and Jamein Cunningham)
- “Life of the Party: The Polarizing Effect of Foreign Direct Investment,” European Journal of Political Economy (2021) (with Zachary Cohle)
- “Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Essential Workers, Mental Health, and the Coronavirus Pandemic,” Review of Black Political Economy (2021) (with Jevay Grooms, Joaquin Alfredo- Angel Rubalcaba, and Edward Vargas)
- “The COVID-19 public health and economic crises leave vulnerable populations exposed.” The Hamilton Project. August 13 (2020): 2020. (with Jevay Grooms and Joaquin Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba)
- “Business Cycles and HBCU Appropriations," (with O. Swinton) Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy (2018)