Sarah Pearlman
Professor of Economics
Vassar College
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RESEARCH

PUBLISHED

[1] "Declining Outmigration and Local Labor Markets", with Emily Conover and Melanie Khamis. 2023. Forthecoming Journal of Human Resources [PAPER]

[2] "Job Quality and Labor Market Transitions: Evidence from Mexican Informal and Formal Workers" with Emily Conver and Melanie Khamis, 2022. Jounral of Development Studies Vol. 58 (7), 1332--1348 (Previously circulated as WIDER Working Paper 2021/23)  [PAPER]

[3] "Endogamous Marriage among Immigrant Groups: The Impact of Deportations under Secure Communities" with Cynthia Bansak, 2022 Economic Inquiry Vol. 60(1) [PAPER]

[4] "The Impact of Legalizing Unauthorized Immigrants" with Cynthia Bansak. 2021. IZA World of Labor [LINK]

[5] "Gender Imbalances and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Large-Scale Mexican Migration" with Emily Conover and Melanie Khamis. 2021. IZA Journal of Development and Migration 12:02 [PAPER]

[6] "Knowledge Obsolescence, Human Capital Depreciation and Women's Occupational Sorting", with Amanda McFarland. 2020. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 20(1)

[7] "The Impact of Education-Occupation Mismatches onWages in Mexico", with Stephen Rubb, 2019 Applied Economics Letters [PAPER]

[8] "Violence and Migration: Evidence from Mexico's Drug War", with Sukanya Basu. 2017.  IZA Journal of Development and Migration, Vol. 7:18 [PAPER]

[9] "Dropouts, Defaulters and Continuing Clients: Client Exit from Microfinance." 2014. Developing Economies, Vol. 52(4)  [PAPER

[10] "Officials Versus Thieves: Is Public or Private Expropriation More Harmful to  Small Firms?" 2014. Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 50 (6) pp. 773-788 [PAPER]

[11] "Crime and Microenterprise Growth: Evidence from Mexico", with Ariel Ben Yishay. 2014. World Development, Vol.56, pp.139-152  [PAPER]

[12] "Do Low Returns to Capital Explain Low Formal Credit Use? Evidence from Ecuador." 2014. Journal of Developing Areas, Vol.48(1), pp.1-19  [PAPER]

[13] "A Goldsmith Exercise for Learning Money Creation", with Bob Rebelein. 2013. Journal of Economic Education,  Vol.44(4), pp.372-388  [PAPER]
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    [APPENDIX B]- Student Instruction Sheet, including record sheets
    [APPENDIX C]- Instructor Materials, including certificates

[14] "Ethnic Concentration and Immigrant Bank Use", with Sarah Bohn. 2013. Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 79(4), pp.864-885  [PAPER] 

[15] "Too Vulnerable For Microfinance? Risk and Vulernability as Determinants of Microfinance Selection." 2012.   Journal of Development Studies Vol. 48(9),  pp.1342-1359 [PAPER]

WORKING PAPERS

"The Long-Term Benefits of Vaccination Campaigns: Evidence from Measles" with Alicia Atwood under review

"What Happens When Men Don't Migrate? Partnership and Fertility in a Migrant Sending Country" with Emily Conover and Melanie Khamis

"The Impact Secure Communities on the Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrant
Women Left Behind" with Cynthia Bansak and Chad Sparber

"The Impact of Education-Occupation Mismatches on Migration from Mexico" with
Stephen Rubb"

"Violence and Labor Market Responses: Evidence from Mexico's Drug War", with Sukanya Basu.  2019. Paper upon request 

"Flexibility Matters: Do More Rigid Loan Contracts Reduce Demand for Microfinance Loans?", background paper for CAF's 2011 Reporte de Economia y Desarrollo (RED) [PAPER] 








WORK IN PROGRESS

"Why Don't Women Code? Media Exposure, Education and Occupational Choice in U.S. Labor Markets", with Emily Conover and Melanie Khamis