Patricia Cortes
Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law
- Education
- PhD, MIT, 2006
MA, Universidad de los Andes – Bogota, Colombia, 2000
BA, Universidad de los Andes – Bogota, Colombia, 1998 - Office
- QST 639
- Email
- pcortes@bu.edu
- Phone
- 617-353-3646
Patricia Cortes is a Professor of Markets, Public Policy & Law at Questrom School of Business and co-leads the Program on Women’s Empowerment Research at the Human Capital Initiative at Boston University.
She is an empirical labor economist working on international migration and gender. In her work, she has studied how low-skilled immigration affects prices and the labor supply of high skilled women in the US, female migration flows in East Asia, the migration of Filipino nurses to the US and the role of the demand for time flexibility in explaining gender pay gaps and occupation segregation. Her ongoing projects include a study on the barriers to female labor force participation in Saudi Arabia and an investigation of gender differences in negotiation and job search using experimental methods.
Cortes obtained her PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute for Technology and a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Economics from La Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia.
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