MIGUEL SARZOSA University of Maryland Department of Economics College Park, MD 20742 Phone: (202)-679-0282 Email: [email protected] Website: econweb.umd.edu/~sarzosa EDUCATION Ph.D. M.Sc. M.A. B.A. Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, expected May 2015 Economics for Development, University of Oxford, July 2010 Economics, Universidad de los Andes, September 2007 Economics, Universidad de los Andes, September 2005 FIELDS OF INTEREST Primary: Labor Economics, Microeconometrics Secondary: Development Economics DISSERTATION Essays on Skills and Victimization Committee: Professor Sergio Urzúa (Chair), Professor Sebastian Galiani, Professor John Ham JOB MARKET PAPER “The Dynamic Consequences of Bullying on Skills Accumulation” Recent literature has shown that skills are not only essential for the development of successful adults, but also that they are malleable and prone to be affected by many experiences, especially during childhood. I examine how bullying, an unfortunately common childhood experience, depletes skills in school children. I use a unique longitudinal data set on middle school students to estimate a structural dynamic model of skill accumulation based on the identification of unobserved heterogeneity. I allow skill formation to depend on past levels of skills, parental investment and bullying. Also, I allow bullying itself to depend on each student’s past skills and those of his or her classmates. I find that being bullied at age 14 depletes current skill levels by 33% of a standard deviation for the average child. This skill depletion causes the individual to become almost twice more likely to experience bullying again at age 15. Therefore bullying triggers a self-reinforcing mechanism that opens an ever-growing skill gap that reaches about one standard deviation by age 16. Finally, I find evidence that supports the allocation of students in more skill-homogeneous classrooms as a tool to reduce bullying occurrence. PAPERS "Implementing Factor Models in Stata: the heterofactor command". (with Sergio Urzúa), Revise and Resubmit to the Stata Journal “The Children of the Missed Pill: Unintended Consequences of Price Collusion in the Pharmaceutical Industry”. (with Tomás Rau and Sergio Urzúa), Working paper “The Casual Effects of Skills: An international Study” (with Ricardo Espinoza and Sergio Urzúa), Background paper for the OECD International Skills Report (2014) “Bullying and Cyberbullying in Teenagers, The Role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills” (with Sergio Urzúa), Working paper "FGLS Estimation of Panel Data Models with Serial Correlation, Fixed Effects and Missing Data” (With Raymond Guiteras and Roger Moon) , Working paper “Community Heterogeneity and Collective Action in Demand–driven Poverty Reduction Programs”. 2008. OVE Working Paper 05/10 (with Yuri Soares) “The Welfare Impacts of Local Investment Projects: Evidence from the Guatemala FIS”. 2008. OVE Working Paper 02/08. (with Pablo Ibarrarán and Yuri Soares) “Wage Discrimination Against Homosexuals, the role of skills”, Work in progress TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant, Empirical Microeconomics (Ph.D.), University of Maryland, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014 Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Microeconomics, University of Maryland, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Assistant, Prof. Sergio Urzúa, University of Maryland, Spring 2013, Spring 2014 Researcher, World Bank, Washington DC, Summer 2012 Contributor, Economist Intelligence Unit, The Economist, London, England, 2010 to 2012 Research Consultant, Inter–American Development, Washington DC, May 2009 to Dec 2009 Research Assistant, World Bank, Washington DC, Dec 2008 to Aug 2009 Research Fellow, Inter–American Development, Washington DC, Jan 2007 to Dec 2008 Assessor, Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation ACCION SOCIAL, Colombian Presidency, Bogota, Colombia, Dec 2005 to Dec 2006 ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS Best Third Year Paper Award, Department of Economics, University of Maryland, 2013 Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2013 IADB Research Grant, Labor Markets and Social Security Unit – IADB, 2012 Luca d’Agliano Prize Best MSc. Dissertation, Dept. of Economics, University of Oxford, 2010. Superior Education Quality Test – ECAES 2004. Score top 1% Nationwide, ICFES, 2004 CONFERENCE AND SEMINARS PRESENTATIONS 2014 Fundacion Getulio Vargas (Sao Paulo), 2013 World Education Forum, 2012 International Conference on Education and Social Progress, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 Latin American and the Caribbean Economic Association. REFERENCES Prof. Sergio Urzúa Prof. Sebastián Galiani Prof. John Ham University of Maryland University of Maryland University of Maryland [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (301) 405-3266 (301) 405-3489 (301) 405-3497