Raquel Fernández
Biographic Data
| ID | 3714932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raquel Fernández |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raquel |
| FAMILY NAME | Fernández |
| SIGNATURE | FERNANDEZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-5807-8860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Female labor force participation and fertility in Latin America: Decomposing two decades of change
Incremental alternative sampling as a lens into the temporal and representational resolution of linguistic prediction
We present incremental alternative sampling (IAS), a computational account of incremental language comprehension in which the comprehender continually generates, evaluates, and updates predictions about alternative continuations of partial linguistic input. IAS is related to information-theoretic approaches to predictive processing, including surprisal, but makes explicit the role of variable prediction horizons and multiple levels of linguistic …
Informes del Comisionado para el Mercado de Tabacos: Entre la opacidad y la irrelevancia
Los informes mensuales del Comisionado para el Mercado de Tabacos (CMT) en España, aunque extensos en datos, presentan deficiencias críticas que limitan su utilidad para la salud pública. Un análisis crítico revela tres problemas fundamentales: ambigüedad institucional, opacidad metodológica y omisiones analíticas relevantes. La autoría de los informes es incierta, publicándose bajo el nombre de un comité consultivo con presencia de la industria …
Regulator’s Trojan horse: The tobacco industry’s advisory council institutionalised within the government in Spain
The tobacco industry exploited its institutionalised role on the AC as a 'Trojan horse' to actively subvert public health policies, contravening Spain's obligations under WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Article 5.3. This legally sanctioned position creates a clear channel for policy interference. Urgent reforms are necessary to insulate public health policymaking from the vested commercial interests of the tobacco industry
Alignment of code switching varies with proficiency in second language learning dialogue
Gay Politics Goes Mainstream: Democrats, Republicans and Same‐sex Relationships
Attitudes towards same‐sex relationships in the USA have changed radically over a relatively short period of time. After remaining fairly constant for over two decades, opinions became more favourable starting in 1992—a presidential election year in which the Democratic and Republican Parties took opposing stands over the status of gay people in society. What roles did political parties and their leaders play in this process of cultural change? U…
Disfluencies as intra-utterance dialogue moves
Although disfluent speech is pervasive in spoken conversation, disfluencies have received little attention within formal theories of grammar. The majority of work on disfluent language has come from psycholinguistic models of speech production and comprehension and from structural approaches designed to improve performance in speech applications. In this paper, we argue for the inclusion of this phenomenon in the scope of formal grammar, and pres…
Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation
This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation (LFP). We calibrate the model to match key life-cycle statistics for the 1935 cohort and use it to assess the changed environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher divorce probability and changes in wage structure are each able to explain a large proportion of the LFP increase. Higher divorce risk increases LFP not …
Divorce Risk, Wages and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labour Force Participation
Journal Article Divorce Risk, Wages and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life‐Cycle Analysis of Female Labour Force Participation Get access Raquel Fernández, Raquel Fernández New York University, NBER, CEPR, ESOP, IZA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joyce Cheng Wong Joyce Cheng Wong International Monetary Fund Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volu…
Cultural Change as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century
This paper develops a learning model of cultural change to investigate why women's labor force participation (LFP) and attitudes toward women's work both changed dramatically. In the model, women's beliefs about the long-run payoff from working evolve endogenously via an intergenerational learning process. This process generically generates the data's S-shaped LFP curve and introduces a novel role for wage changes via their effect on the speed of…
Does Culture Matter?
L'agir scolaire entre régulations et incertitudes. Vers une typologie des postures enseignantes de la relation à autrui
L'article décrit la réalité plurielle de l'école contemporaine, où des conceptions successives de l'égalité -égalité formelle, équité, reconnaissance- ne s'annulent pas mais s'articulent, de façon congruente ou contradictoire, dans les postures et les pratiques enseignantes. Il montre les limites et les dilemmes que chacune induit pour les enseignants. L'égalité formelle, liée au modèle politique français de la fin du XIX e siècle, assure des dro…
Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility
We study culture by examining the work and fertility behavior of second-generation American women. Culture is proxied with past female labor force participation and total fertility rates from the woman's country of ancestry. The values of these variables capture not only economic and institutional conditions but also the country's preferences and beliefs regarding women's roles. Since the women live in the United States, only the belief and prefe…
Women, Work, and Culture
This paper discusses some recent advances in the area of culture and economics and examines the effect of culture on a key economic outcome: female labor supply. To separate the effect of market variables and institutions from culture, I use an epidemiological approach, studying second-generation American women. I use both female LFP and attitudes in the women's country of ancestry as cultural proxies and show that both cultural proxies have quan…
Classifying Non-Sentential Utterances in Dialogue: A Machine Learning Approach
In this article we use well-known machine learning methods to tackle a novel task, namely the classification of non-sentential utterances (NSUs) in dialogue. We introduce a fine-grained taxonomy of NSU classes based on corpus work, and then report on the results of several machine learning experiments. First, we present a pilot study focused on one of the NSU classes in the taxonomy—bare wh-phrases or “sluices”—and explore the task of disambiguat…
Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience
This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values of the total fertility rate in the woman's country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman's number of siblings to capture her direct family experience. We find that both variables are significant …
Equity and Resources: An Analysis of Education Finance Systems
We analyze five education finance systems: local, state, foundation, power equalizing with recapture (PER), and power equalizing without recapture (PEN). In a calibrated model, we find that finance systems have large effects on educational resources and equity. The trade-off between equity and resources, however, is not monotone. Ranking systems by expected utility, we find that PER consistently ranks highest, though it provides fewer resources t…
Education finance reform: A dynamic perspective
We use a dynamic Tiebout model to analyze the consequences of moving from a pure local system of education finance to a pure state system of finance in which each student receives the same resources. While much of the education finance literature focuses on the static or immediate effects of such a change, our analysis also examines the dynamic effects. Numerical simulations for a calibrated version of our model indicate that these dynamic effect…
The scope for collusive behavior among debtor countries
We study the question of whether there exist strategies whereby countries are able to sustain a cartel or collusive behavior when bargaining with a bank over the amount of debt to be repaid. We show that despite the existence of economies to scale in bargaining--if commitment were possible the countries would benefit from joint bargaining--a debtors' cartel will not emerge in equilibrium (in the absence of credible commitment mechanisms). A uniqu…
L'agir scolaire entre régulations et incertitudes. Vers une typologie des postures enseignantes de la relation à autrui
L'article décrit la réalité plurielle de l'école contemporaine, où des conceptions successives de l'égalité -égalité formelle, équité, reconnaissance- ne s'annulent pas mais s'articulent, de façon congruente ou contradictoire, dans les postures et les pratiques enseignantes. Il montre les limites et les dilemmes que chacune induit pour les enseignants. L'égalité formelle, liée au modèle politique français de la fin du XIX e siècle, assure des dro…
Divorce Risk, Wages and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labour Force Participation
Journal Article Divorce Risk, Wages and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life‐Cycle Analysis of Female Labour Force Participation Get access Raquel Fernández, Raquel Fernández New York University, NBER, CEPR, ESOP, IZA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joyce Cheng Wong Joyce Cheng Wong International Monetary Fund Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volu…
Equity and Resources: An Analysis of Education Finance Systems
We analyze five education finance systems: local, state, foundation, power equalizing with recapture (PER), and power equalizing without recapture (PEN). In a calibrated model, we find that finance systems have large effects on educational resources and equity. The trade-off between equity and resources, however, is not monotone. Ranking systems by expected utility, we find that PER consistently ranks highest, though it provides fewer resources t…
Alignment of code switching varies with proficiency in second language learning dialogue
The scope for collusive behavior among debtor countries
We study the question of whether there exist strategies whereby countries are able to sustain a cartel or collusive behavior when bargaining with a bank over the amount of debt to be repaid. We show that despite the existence of economies to scale in bargaining--if commitment were possible the countries would benefit from joint bargaining--a debtors' cartel will not emerge in equilibrium (in the absence of credible commitment mechanisms). A uniqu…
Education finance reform: A dynamic perspective
We use a dynamic Tiebout model to analyze the consequences of moving from a pure local system of education finance to a pure state system of finance in which each student receives the same resources. While much of the education finance literature focuses on the static or immediate effects of such a change, our analysis also examines the dynamic effects. Numerical simulations for a calibrated version of our model indicate that these dynamic effect…
Equity and Resources: An Analysis of Education Finance Systems
We analyze five education finance systems: local, state, foundation, power equalizing with recapture (PER), and power equalizing without recapture (PEN). In a calibrated model, we find that finance systems have large effects on educational resources and equity. The trade-off between equity and resources, however, is not monotone. Ranking systems by expected utility, we find that PER consistently ranks highest, though it provides fewer resources t…
Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience
This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values of the total fertility rate in the woman's country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman's number of siblings to capture her direct family experience. We find that both variables are significant …
Women, Work, and Culture
This paper discusses some recent advances in the area of culture and economics and examines the effect of culture on a key economic outcome: female labor supply. To separate the effect of market variables and institutions from culture, I use an epidemiological approach, studying second-generation American women. I use both female LFP and attitudes in the women's country of ancestry as cultural proxies and show that both cultural proxies have quan…
Classifying Non-Sentential Utterances in Dialogue: A Machine Learning Approach
In this article we use well-known machine learning methods to tackle a novel task, namely the classification of non-sentential utterances (NSUs) in dialogue. We introduce a fine-grained taxonomy of NSU classes based on corpus work, and then report on the results of several machine learning experiments. First, we present a pilot study focused on one of the NSU classes in the taxonomy—bare wh-phrases or “sluices”—and explore the task of disambiguat…
Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility
We study culture by examining the work and fertility behavior of second-generation American women. Culture is proxied with past female labor force participation and total fertility rates from the woman's country of ancestry. The values of these variables capture not only economic and institutional conditions but also the country's preferences and beliefs regarding women's roles. Since the women live in the United States, only the belief and prefe…
Does Culture Matter?
L'agir scolaire entre régulations et incertitudes. Vers une typologie des postures enseignantes de la relation à autrui
L'article décrit la réalité plurielle de l'école contemporaine, où des conceptions successives de l'égalité -égalité formelle, équité, reconnaissance- ne s'annulent pas mais s'articulent, de façon congruente ou contradictoire, dans les postures et les pratiques enseignantes. Il montre les limites et les dilemmes que chacune induit pour les enseignants. L'égalité formelle, liée au modèle politique français de la fin du XIX e siècle, assure des dro…
Cultural Change as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century
This paper develops a learning model of cultural change to investigate why women's labor force participation (LFP) and attitudes toward women's work both changed dramatically. In the model, women's beliefs about the long-run payoff from working evolve endogenously via an intergenerational learning process. This process generically generates the data's S-shaped LFP curve and introduces a novel role for wage changes via their effect on the speed of…
Disfluencies as intra-utterance dialogue moves
Although disfluent speech is pervasive in spoken conversation, disfluencies have received little attention within formal theories of grammar. The majority of work on disfluent language has come from psycholinguistic models of speech production and comprehension and from structural approaches designed to improve performance in speech applications. In this paper, we argue for the inclusion of this phenomenon in the scope of formal grammar, and pres…
Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation
This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation (LFP). We calibrate the model to match key life-cycle statistics for the 1935 cohort and use it to assess the changed environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher divorce probability and changes in wage structure are each able to explain a large proportion of the LFP increase. Higher divorce risk increases LFP not …
Divorce Risk, Wages and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labour Force Participation
Journal Article Divorce Risk, Wages and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life‐Cycle Analysis of Female Labour Force Participation Get access Raquel Fernández, Raquel Fernández New York University, NBER, CEPR, ESOP, IZA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joyce Cheng Wong Joyce Cheng Wong International Monetary Fund Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volu…
Alignment of code switching varies with proficiency in second language learning dialogue
Gay Politics Goes Mainstream: Democrats, Republicans and Same‐sex Relationships
Attitudes towards same‐sex relationships in the USA have changed radically over a relatively short period of time. After remaining fairly constant for over two decades, opinions became more favourable starting in 1992—a presidential election year in which the Democratic and Republican Parties took opposing stands over the status of gay people in society. What roles did political parties and their leaders play in this process of cultural change? U…
Informes del Comisionado para el Mercado de Tabacos: Entre la opacidad y la irrelevancia
Los informes mensuales del Comisionado para el Mercado de Tabacos (CMT) en España, aunque extensos en datos, presentan deficiencias críticas que limitan su utilidad para la salud pública. Un análisis crítico revela tres problemas fundamentales: ambigüedad institucional, opacidad metodológica y omisiones analíticas relevantes. La autoría de los informes es incierta, publicándose bajo el nombre de un comité consultivo con presencia de la industria …
Regulator’s Trojan horse: The tobacco industry’s advisory council institutionalised within the government in Spain
The tobacco industry exploited its institutionalised role on the AC as a 'Trojan horse' to actively subvert public health policies, contravening Spain's obligations under WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Article 5.3. This legally sanctioned position creates a clear channel for policy interference. Urgent reforms are necessary to insulate public health policymaking from the vested commercial interests of the tobacco industry
Female labor force participation and fertility in Latin America: Decomposing two decades of change
Incremental alternative sampling as a lens into the temporal and representational resolution of linguistic prediction
We present incremental alternative sampling (IAS), a computational account of incremental language comprehension in which the comprehender continually generates, evaluates, and updates predictions about alternative continuations of partial linguistic input. IAS is related to information-theoretic approaches to predictive processing, including surprisal, but makes explicit the role of variable prediction horizons and multiple levels of linguistic …
Economics (10 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (5 works) · Microeconomics (5 works) · Fertility (4 works) · Population (4 works)