Sandra Orozco-Aleman PhD

Sandra Orozco-Aleman PhD

Title:

  • Associate Professor of Economics

Contacts:

sorozco@business.msstate.edu
Office: (662) 325-1980
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Overview

Summary:

Sandra Orozco-Aleman is an Associate Professor of Economics at Mississippi State University. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.A. from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM).
Her research focuses on the labor market impact of immigration, unauthorized immigration, and U.S. immigration policy. Orozco-Aleman has published articles in leading academic journals, including the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Journal of Human Resources, the AEA Papers and Proceedings, and the Journal of Labor Research. She has studied the effect of violence generated by the Mexican Drug War on Mexican migration to the United States, the impact of state immigration laws such as Arizona SB1070 on the deterrence of undocumented immigration, as well as the effect of U.S. immigration policies on the selectivity of Mexican immigrants in the United States. Her current research examines the deterrence effect of interior immigration enforcement and its impact on immigrants' labor market outcomes and crime incidence in the United States.
Before joining Mississippi State University, she worked for six years as an Economist and a Financial Researcher at the Mexican Central Bank.

Education:

  • Ph D, Economics, University of Pittsburgh, 2011
  • MA, Economics, University of Pittsburgh, 2010
  • BA, Economics, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM), 2000

Research interests:

Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics, Immigration

Publications

Journal Article

Presentations

Paper

  • "Immigration Enforcement, Deterrence, and Crime." ASSA Annual Meeting, American Economic Association, San Diego, CA. 2020
  • "Mexican Migration during Trump’s Presidency." Alumni Conference ITAM, CIE, Mexico City, Mexico. 2019
  • "Border Enforcement and Selectivity of Mexican Immigrants." Annual Meeting, Southern Economic Association, Fort Lauderdale, FL. 2019
  • "Drug Violence, Immigration Enforcement, and Selectivity: Evidence from Mexican Immigrants." ASSA Annual Meeting, American Economic Association, Atlanta, GA. 2019
  • "Mexican Migration during Trump’s Presidency." Southern Economic Association, Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL. 2019
  • "Drug-violence, Immigration Enforcement, and Selectivity: Evidence from Mexican Immigrants." Western Economics Association, Annual Meeting, Western Economics Association, British Columbia, Canada. 2018
  • "Drug-violence, Immigration Enforcement, and Selectivity: Evidence from Mexican Immigrants." Southern Economic Association, Annual Meeting, Southern Economic Association, Washington, DC. 2018
  • "Return Migration and Self-Employment: Evidence from Mexican Migrants." Alumni Conference ITAM, ITAM CIE, Mexico City, Mexico. 2018
  • "Return Migration and Self-Employment: Evidence from Mexican Migrants." Eastern Economic Association, Annual Meeting, Eastern Economic Association, Boston, MA. 2018
  • "Return Migration and Self-Employment:Evidence from Mexican Migrants." Southern Economic Association, Annual Meeting, Southern Economic Association, Tampa, FL. 2017
  • "Illegal Immigration, State Law, and Deterrence." Annual Conference of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, Association of Private Enterprise Education, Lahaina, Hawaii. 2017
  • "Return Migration: New Source of Self-Employment in Mexico." Eastern Economic Association, Eastern Economic Association, Washington, D.C.. 2016
  • "Illegal Immigration, State Law, and Deterrence." ASSA Annual Meeting, American Economic Association, Boston, MA. 2015
  • "Return MIgration: New Source of Self-Employment in Mexico." ASSA Annual Meeting, American Economic Association, Boston, MA. 2015
  • "Illegal Immigration, State Law, and Deterrence." 84th Annual Meeting Southern Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, Atlanta, GA. 2014
  • "Return Migration: New Source of Self-Employment in Mexico." 84th Annual Meeting Southern Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, Atlanta, GA. 2014
  • "Does violence affect migration flows? Evidence from the Mexican drug war." ASSA Annual Meeting, American Economic Association, Philadelphia, PA.. 2014
  • "Does violence affect migration flows? Evidence from the Mexican drug war." Seventh Southeastern International/Development Economics Workshop, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Americas Center and Andrew Young School of Policy Studies’s Economics Department and International Center for Public Policy at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. 2013
  • "Does violence affect migration flows? Evidence from the Mexican drug war." 18th Annual Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association and the 28th Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society , Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association and the Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, Mexico City. 2013
  • "Do Mexican Workers Return Home? Performance and Duration of Mexican Immigrants in the United States." 14th Annual Meeting Society of Labor Economics, Society of Labor Economics, Boston, MA. 2009