Cynthia Bansak
St. Lawrence University News
Submitted by cbansak on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 14:45.
Assistant Professor
Courses I teach regularly:
Econometrics, Money and Banking, Macroeconomics
My research interests:
Labor economics, applied econometrics, immigration, poverty, welfare
Sample student projects I have supervised:
Animesh Giri ’08 —“Migrants’ Remittances and Savings in Nepal: Micro-level Evidence from Nepal”
Trysia Odorczuk ’08 —“The Effect of the Dismantling of the 35 Hour Workweek on the French Individual”
Examples of presentations, exhibitions, performances and published work:
“The State Children's Health Insurance Program and Job Mobility: Identifying Job Lock among Working Parents in Near-Poor Households"(with Steven Raphael) (with Steven Raphael) Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 2008, Volume 61, No. 4, pp. 564-579.
“Gender Differences in the Labor Market: Impact of IRCA's Amnesty Provisions” (with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Steven Raphael); American Economic Review, May 2007, v. 97, iss. 2, pp. 412-16.
“The Differential Wage Impact of Employer Sanctions on Latino Ethnic Subgroups”, Social Science Quarterly, December 2005, Volume 86, No. 5, pp. 1279-1297.
My current projects:
“How Do Remittances Impact Human Capital Formation of School Age Boys and Girls? A Longitudinal Analysis Using the Nepal Living Standards Survey” with Brian Chezum
“The Effect of Welfare Asset Rules on Auto Ownership, Employment and Welfare Rolls: A Longitudinal Analysis Using the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)” with Lorien Rice (Mills College)