Luis Monroy Gomez-Franco

2017-2022 |  Graduate Center of the City University of New York

PhD in Economics (Fields: Development and Labor Economics)

2017-2020 | Graduate Center of the City University of New York

MPhil in Economics

2014-2016 | El Colegio de México

MSc in Economics

2009-2014 | Facultad de Economía, Universidad Nacional

Autónoma de México BA in Economics

S 2023 - | Assistant Professor

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

F 2022 | Adjunct Lecturer

Development Economics, M.Sc. in Economics, El Colegio de México

S 2022 | Adjunct Lecturer

Advanced Quantitative Methods, MPA, The City College of New York

F 2018-S 2022 | Adjunct Lecturer '

Introduction to Econometrics (undergraduate), The City College of New York

F 2021 | Adjunct Lecturer

Introduction to Statistics (undergraduate), The City College of New York

S 2017 | Adjunct Lecturer

Intermediate Macroeconomics II, Facultad de Economía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Peer-reviewed journal articles:

• Shades of social mobility: Colorism, ethnic origin and intergenerational social mobility (Forthcoming) The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 
• The potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on learning, (2022) International Journal of Educational Development, 93. (with Roberto Vélez-Grajales & Luis Felipe López-Calva)
• Layers of Inequality: Unequal Opportunities and Skin Tone in Mexico, (2022) Review of Black Political Economy, 49(3): 230-250. (with Roberto Vélez-Grajales & Gastón Yalonetzky.) 1
• Skin Tone Differences in Social Mobility in Mexico: Are We Forgetting Regional Variance?, (2021) Journal of Economics, Race and Policy, 4(4): 257–274. (with Roberto Vélez-Grajales)
• Mexico’s latest –and probably last–package of market reforms (2012-18): The remains of the day (2020). Cuadernos de Economía, 39(80): 425-443. (with Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Joaquín Sánchez-Gómez).
• Inequality of Opportunity in Mexico (2018), Journal of Income Distribution, 27(3-4): 138-154. (with Roberto Vélez-Grajales and Gastón Yalonetzky).

Peer-reviewed journal article:

• Los impactos distributivosdel COVID-19 en México. Un balance preliminar (2021), Revista de Economía Mexicana. Anuario UNAM, 6, pp. 135-168
• ¿Quién puede trabajar desde casa? Evidencia desde México. (2021). Estudios Económicos, 36(1), pp. 89-113.
• La movilidad social en México: hallazgos y pendientes (2017), Revista de Economía Mexicana. Anuario UNAM, 2: pp. 97-142 (with Roberto Vélez-Grajales)
• Capitalismo y corrupción: un enfoque institucional en el contexto de la (in)movilidad social en México (2017), Clivajes. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 4(7): pp. 70-93 (with Roberto VélezGrajales)
• La relación entre crecimiento económico y pobreza en México (2016), Investigación Económica, 75(298), pp. 77-113 (with Raymundo Campos-Vázquez)
• ¿Reduce el crecimiento económico la pobreza en México? (2016), Revista de Economía Mexicana. Anuario UNAM, 1, pp. 140-185 (with Raymundo Campos-Vázquez)  
• El Salario Mínimo en México (2014), Economía UNAM, 11(33): 78-93 (with Juan Carlos Moreno Brid and Stefanie Garry)

Book chapters:

• La evolución de los salarios: causa y reflejo de la desigualdad en México (2019), in: Bárcena, Alicia and Rolando Cordera (coord.), Memoria del Seminario UNAM-CEPAL Cambio de Época. América Latina frente a la Hora de la Igualdad: avances, retrocesos y desafíos, Ciudad de México: Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe, pp. 49-66 (with Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, Isabel Salat and Joaquín Sánchez-Gómez).
• El camino menos transitado. Políticas para la Igualdad Social (2019), in: Bayón, María Cristina (coord.), Las Grietas del Neoliberalismo. Dimensiones de la Desigualdad Contemporánea en México, Ciudad de México: Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, UNAM, pp. 39-66 (with Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Nubia Monserrat Chávez).
• Igualdad de oportunidades: Un México en donde el origen no determine el destino (2018), in: Beck, Humberto and Rafael Lemus (eds.), El Futuro es Hoy: Ideas Radicales para México, Ciudad de México: Biblioteca Nueva, pp. 113-136.
• Salarios en México: avances, pendientes y opciones de política hacia un desarrollo económico y social sostenido (2018), in: Arroyo Ortiz, Juan Pablo; Isabel Islas Arredondo; Ariadna Díaz Castillo and María Ángeles Cortés Basurto (coord.), Balance de las Reformas Estructurales, Ciudad de México: Instituto Belisario Domínguez, Senado de la República, pp. 215-244 (with Juan Carlos MorenoBrid, Pedro Enrique Armendares, Isabel Salat and Joaquín Sánchez-Gómez).
• El tipo de cambio real en episodios de crecmiento elevado y persistente: una taxonomía de la experiencia latinoamericana (2015), in: Bárcena, Alicia, Antonio Prado and Martín Abeles (eds.), Estructura productiva y política macroeconómica: Enfoques heterodoxos desde América Latina, Santiago de Chile: Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe, pp. 215-244 (with Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid).

Other publications:

• El Salario Mínimo: Olvido y perspectivas (2016), Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, 16(1), pp. 95-103 (with Diego Castañeda-Garza)
• México: el contenido importado de los principales sectores exportadores (2014), Comercio Exterior, 64(2), pp. 2-5

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• Modelling the learning impacts of educational disruptions in the short and long run.
• Shades of social mobility: Colorism, ethnic origin and intergenerational social mobility.
• Does Globalisation Reward Education? Evidence for Mexico (with Ingrid Bleynat) 

• A Land of Unequal Chances: Social Mobility across Mexican Regions (with Miles Corak)
• Economic Inequality meets Social Stratification: An Analytical Framework with an Application to Mexico (with Paloma Villagómez-Ornelas)
• Corruption and Social Mobility: A Theoretical Investigation (with Luis Guillermo Woo-Mora)

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2022 | Instructor

XIII Summer School on Social Mobility, Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias

2021 | Instructor

XII Summer School on Social Mobility, Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias

2020 | Instructor

Short Course: Introduction to Economic Inequalities, Fondo María México

2020 | Instructor

XI Summer School on Social Mobility, Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias

2019 | Instructor

X Summer School on Social Mobility, Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias

2017 | Instructor

VIII Summer School on Social Mobility, Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias

2022 | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCDE)

Chapter in a book on poverty, informality and productivity in Latin America.

2020 | Consejo para Prevenir y Erradicar la Discriminación en la Ciudad de México (COPRED)

Evaluation of the impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Mexican labor market.

2016-2019 | Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias (CEEY), Mexico

Social mobility, inequality of opportunity in Mexico and their determinants

2018 | Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico

An introduction to the economic challenges of Mexico

2019 - present | Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias (CEEY), Mexico

External Associate Researcher

The potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on learning | December 2021

Second World Inequality Conference | Paris, France

Care demands and labour impacts: The effects of COVID-19 on female employment in Mexico | June 2021 2021

Annual Conference of the International Association for Feminist Economics | Quito, Ecuador

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Female Employment Early Evidence from Mexico | June 2021

International Seminar Economics in Pandemic Times, Facultad de Economía, UNAM and Freie Universtät Berlin | Mexico City, Mexico

Efectos de la Pandemia en la Distribución del Ingreso: Un análisis preliminar | June 2021

Seminario Permanente de Coyuntura y Estructura Económica, Facultad de Economía, UNAM | Mexico City, Mexico

Impactos Distributivos del COVID-19 en México: Un análisis preliminar | April 2021

Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias Mexico City, Mexico

A Land of Unequal Chances: Social Mobility and Inequality of Opportunity Across Mexican Regions | November 2019

2019 Meeting of the Latin American and the Caribbean Economics Association | Puebla, Mexico 

A Land of Unequal Chances: Social Mobility and Inequality of Opportunity Across Mexican Regions | July 2019

Eight Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Paris 2019 | Paris, France

Layers of Inequality: Social Mobility, Inequality of Opportunity and Skin Colour in Mexico | February 2019

Eastern Economic Association Meeting 2019 | New York City, US 

Desigualdad de Oportunidades, Movilidad Social y Color de Piel en México | January 2019 Consejo Nacional Para Prevenir la Discriminación | Mexico City, Mexico

A Land of Unequal Chances: Social Mobility and Inequality of Opportunity across Mexican Regions January 2019 Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias Mexico City, Mexico 11. Layers of Inequality: Social Mobility, Inequality of Opportunity and Skin Colour in Mexico December 2018 Equal Chances: Equality of Opportunity and Social Mobility Around the World Bari, Italy 12. Inequality of Opportunity in Mexico November 2017 Graduate Center of the City University of New York New York, NY 13. Inequality of Opportunity in Mexico October 2017 The New School-UMass Economics Graduate Student Workshop New York, NY 14. Inequality of Opportunity in Mexico June 2017 Young Scholars Initiative Latin American Convening, INET Mexico City, Mexico 15. Inequality of Opportunity in Mexico May 2017 Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias Mexico City, Mexico 16. Real Exchange Rate and Growth Spurts in Latin America: What is the Historical Evidence from 1950 to 2012? December 2013 First Iberoamerican Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio Economics Mexico City, Mexico

 Journals | Internatinal Journal of Educational Development; Latin American Economic Review; Journal of Development Studies; Socio-Economic Review; Review of Keynesian Economics; Journal of Income Distribution; Journal of Economics, Race and Policy; Review of Black Political Economy; Economic Change and Restructuring; International Journal of Development Issues; Investigación Económica; Ensayos Revista de Economía; Realidad, Datos y Espacio Revista Internacional de Estadística y Geografía; Revista Problemas del Desarrollo; Economía Teoría y Práctica.

Books | Editorial CEEY (Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias, Mexico)

2017-2022 | Graduate Center Fellowship

2014-2016 | Mexican Council of Science and Technology’s scholarship for M. Sc. studies

2009-2014 | School of Economics Alumni Association Award to Academic Excellence.

h-index | 8

ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3178-1423

Citations | 309

i10-index | 8

Languages | Spanish (native speaker); English (fluent), French (basic); \

Software | Stata, R, LATEX