Patricia Cortés
Biographic Data
| ID | 1456922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Cortés |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Cortés |
| SIGNATURE | CORTES P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5231-2255 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Should Mothers Work? How Perceptions of the Social Norm Affect Individual Attitudes Toward Work in the U.S
We study how peer beliefs shape individual attitudes toward maternal labor supply using hypothetical scenarios that elicit recommendations on the labor supply choices of a mother with a young child and an information treatment embedded within geographically representative surveys of the US population. Across scenarios, we find that individuals are systematically misinformed about the extent of gender conservativeness of the people around them. Ex…
Effects of a Single Session of Mindfulness and Compassion on Skin Temperature in Breast Cancer Survivors
Previous studies have suggested that mindfulness programs can be useful, in a significant sector of the population, to reduce stress when practiced for at least 8 weeks. The objective of the present investigation was to explore the effect of a single session of mindfulness practice in reducing stress in female cancer survivors. Two repeated measures studies were applied; in the first one, it was performed individually, while in the second one, it…
Labor Market Nationalization Policies and Exporting Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Saudi Arabia
In the past decade, Gulf countries have imposed hiring quotas to promote native participation in the private sector and address unemployment. We explore how one such policy, Nitaqat in Saudi Arabia, affected exporting firms. We find that while the policy increased Saudi employment by these firms, it came at a cost. In the year following implementation, relative to firms above the quota, firms below were 1.5 percentage points more likely to exit t…
The Feminization of International Migration and its Effects on the Children Left Behind: Evidence from the Philippines
Low-Skilled Immigration and the Labor Supply of Highly Skilled Women
Low-skilled immigrants represent a significant fraction of employment in services that are close substitutes of household production. This paper studies whether the increased supply of low-skilled immigrants has led high-skilled women, who have the highest opportunity cost of time, to change their time-use decisions. Exploiting cross-city variation in immigrant concentration, we find that low-skilled immigration increases average hours of market …
Motivación y rendimiento en una carrera del área de química de la Universidad Católica del Norte - Chile
Este artículo corresponde a un extracto de uno de los informes técnicos (Ramírez, Cortés, 2002c) desarrollados el año 2002 dentro del contexto de continuidad del Proyecto “Estilo Cognoscitivo y Permanencia en una Carrera Universitaria: la perspectiva de un análisis multivariado para las Universidades de la Segunda Región”, explora y describe el efecto que tiene la motivación por la carrera sobre el rendimiento académico de un alumno de primer año…
The Effect of Low‐Skilled Immigration on U.S. Prices: Evidence from CPI Data
I exploit the large variation across U.S. cities and through time in the relative size of the low-skilled immigrant population to estimate the causal effect of immigration on prices of nontraded goods and services. Using an instrumental variables strategy, I find that, at current immigration levels, a 10 percent increase in the share of low-skilled immigrants in the labor force decreases the price of immigrant-intensive services, such as housekee…
The Feminization of International Migration and its Effects on the Children Left Behind: Evidence from the Philippines
The Effect of Low‐Skilled Immigration on U.S. Prices: Evidence from CPI Data
I exploit the large variation across U.S. cities and through time in the relative size of the low-skilled immigrant population to estimate the causal effect of immigration on prices of nontraded goods and services. Using an instrumental variables strategy, I find that, at current immigration levels, a 10 percent increase in the share of low-skilled immigrants in the labor force decreases the price of immigrant-intensive services, such as housekee…
Labor Market Nationalization Policies and Exporting Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Saudi Arabia
In the past decade, Gulf countries have imposed hiring quotas to promote native participation in the private sector and address unemployment. We explore how one such policy, Nitaqat in Saudi Arabia, affected exporting firms. We find that while the policy increased Saudi employment by these firms, it came at a cost. In the year following implementation, relative to firms above the quota, firms below were 1.5 percentage points more likely to exit t…
Motivación y rendimiento en una carrera del área de química de la Universidad Católica del Norte - Chile
Este artículo corresponde a un extracto de uno de los informes técnicos (Ramírez, Cortés, 2002c) desarrollados el año 2002 dentro del contexto de continuidad del Proyecto “Estilo Cognoscitivo y Permanencia en una Carrera Universitaria: la perspectiva de un análisis multivariado para las Universidades de la Segunda Región”, explora y describe el efecto que tiene la motivación por la carrera sobre el rendimiento académico de un alumno de primer año…
The Effect of Low‐Skilled Immigration on U.S. Prices: Evidence from CPI Data
I exploit the large variation across U.S. cities and through time in the relative size of the low-skilled immigrant population to estimate the causal effect of immigration on prices of nontraded goods and services. Using an instrumental variables strategy, I find that, at current immigration levels, a 10 percent increase in the share of low-skilled immigrants in the labor force decreases the price of immigrant-intensive services, such as housekee…
Low-Skilled Immigration and the Labor Supply of Highly Skilled Women
Low-skilled immigrants represent a significant fraction of employment in services that are close substitutes of household production. This paper studies whether the increased supply of low-skilled immigrants has led high-skilled women, who have the highest opportunity cost of time, to change their time-use decisions. Exploiting cross-city variation in immigrant concentration, we find that low-skilled immigration increases average hours of market …
The Feminization of International Migration and its Effects on the Children Left Behind: Evidence from the Philippines
Labor Market Nationalization Policies and Exporting Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Saudi Arabia
In the past decade, Gulf countries have imposed hiring quotas to promote native participation in the private sector and address unemployment. We explore how one such policy, Nitaqat in Saudi Arabia, affected exporting firms. We find that while the policy increased Saudi employment by these firms, it came at a cost. In the year following implementation, relative to firms above the quota, firms below were 1.5 percentage points more likely to exit t…
Should Mothers Work? How Perceptions of the Social Norm Affect Individual Attitudes Toward Work in the U.S
We study how peer beliefs shape individual attitudes toward maternal labor supply using hypothetical scenarios that elicit recommendations on the labor supply choices of a mother with a young child and an information treatment embedded within geographically representative surveys of the US population. Across scenarios, we find that individuals are systematically misinformed about the extent of gender conservativeness of the people around them. Ex…
Effects of a Single Session of Mindfulness and Compassion on Skin Temperature in Breast Cancer Survivors
Previous studies have suggested that mindfulness programs can be useful, in a significant sector of the population, to reduce stress when practiced for at least 8 weeks. The objective of the present investigation was to explore the effect of a single session of mindfulness practice in reducing stress in female cancer survivors. Two repeated measures studies were applied; in the first one, it was performed individually, while in the second one, it…
Economics (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Immigration (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)