News

Housing costs have exacerbated income equality in Germany

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and co-authors finds that changes in housing expenditures dramatically exacerbated the rise in income inequality in Germany since the mid-1990s. The research was covered on the German press.

Press Release

Immigrant and disadvantaged children benefit most from early childcare

Attending universal childcare from age three significantly improves the school readiness of children from immigrant and disadvantaged family backgrounds.

The Criminal Behaviour of Young Fathers

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and Rasmus Landersø, finds that very young fathers who have their first child while they are still teenagers subsequently commit less crime if the child is a boy than if it is a girl. This then has a spill over effect on other young men of a similar age living in the same neighbourhoods as the young father. The research was covered on the British press.

BBC 2

"I was quite prepared... to use the cover of the statistician's analysis": Former home secretary David Blunkett and Prof Dustmann on the 2003 report on EU accession

Brexit

BBC Three Counties

Christian Dustmann discussing Theresa May's comments on EU workers 'jumping the queue' on BBC Three Counties.

External Research Fellow

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Email: pcortes@bu.edu

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Patricia Cortes

Patricia Cortes is an Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University. She studies unexplored but potentially key dimensions in which immigration affects sending and receiving countries, such as prices of goods and services, time use of women, and the well-being of the family left behind. She had studied immigration in several countries, including the US, Hong Kong, and the Philippines, and her work has been published in top journals, including the Journal of Political Economy. She has been an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business since 2006, after she earned a PhD in economics from MIT. Cortes has also a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in economics, both from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, where she is originally from. Cortes has also worked as a short-term consultant for the World Bank Research Department and an assistant researcher for the Inter-American Development Bank.

Patricia Cortes joined CReAM as an external fellow in May 2006.