Raquel Fernandez



Professor of Economics
Ph.D. 1987 (economics), Columbia; B.A. (magna cum laude) 1981 (economics), Princeton.


Department of Economics
New York University
19 W. 4th Street, 6FL
New York, NY 10012

Phone: 212.998.8908
Fax: 212.995.4186


Personal Homepage: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~rf2/

External Affiliations: Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; Research Affiliate, Center for Economic Policy Research.

Fellowships/Honors: Spencer Fellowship, National Academy of Education, 1992; Junior Fellow, Institute for Policy Reform, 1991; National Fellow, Hoover Institute, 1990; National Science Foundation grants, 1989-1991, 1992-1994, and 1997-1999.

Areas of Research/Interest: International economics, education and income distribution, political economy.


Selected Publications:

To Each According To…? Tournaments, Markets and the Matching Problem Under Credit Constraints, with J. Gali. Review of Economics Studies. Forthcoming.
Income Distribution And Public Education: A Dynamic Quantitative Analysis Of School Finance Reform, with R. Rogerson. American Economic Review, 88. 1998. 813-833.
Odd Versus Even: Comparative Statics in Multicommunity Models. Journal of Public Economics, 65. 1997. 177-192.
Income Distribution, Communities and the Quality of Public Education, with R. Rogerson. Quarterly Journal of Economics. 1996.
Sovereign Debt, with J. Eaton. In Handbook of International Economics, ed. G. Grossman and K. Rogoff. 1995.