September 2017 CONTACT INFORMATION: Department of Economics Orfalea College of Business Cal Poly State University 1 Grand Avenue San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 Phone: (805) 756-2907 Email: cflore32@calpoly.edu Web: http://www.calpoly.edu/~cflore32 CARLOS A. FLORES PERSONAL INFORMATION: Married, two children, dual citizenship (United States of America and Mexico) EDUCATION University of California-Berkeley, Ph.D., Economics, 2005 University of California-Berkeley, M.A., Statistics, 2003 Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), Monterrey, Mexico, B.A., Economics, 1998 FIELDS OF INTEREST Applied and Theoretical Econometrics, Labor Economics PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, Department of Economics, Professor, 2017 present California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, Department of Economics, Associate Professor, 2013 2017 University of Miami, Department of Economics, Assistant Professor, 2005 2013 U.C. Berkeley, Department of Economics, Research Assistant, 2001 2004 U.C. Berkeley, Department of Economics, Teaching Assistant, 2004 2005 University of Arizona, Department of Economics, Teaching Assistant, 1998 1999 RESEARCH PAPERS Published and Forthcoming Papers Estimating the Effects of Length of Exposure to Instruction in a Training Program: The Case of Job Corps, (with Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Arturo Gonzalez, and Todd Neumann), The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94(1): 153 171. Comparing Treatments across Labor Markets: An Assessment of Non-experimental Multiple-Treatment Strategies, (with Oscar Mitnik), The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95(5): 1691 1707. 1
Partial Identification of Local Average Treatment Effects with an Invalid Instrument, (with Alfonso Flores-Lagunes), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2013, 31(4): 534-545. Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages, (with German Blanco and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes), Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48(3): 659-701. The Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages of Adolescents and Young Adults, (with German Blanco and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes), American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2013, 103(3): 418-422 Lessons from Quantile Panel Estimation of the Environmental Kuznets Curve, (with Alfonso Flores- Lagunes and Dimitrios Kapetanakis), Econometric Reviews, 2014, 33(8): 815-853. A Stata Package for the Application of Semiparametric Estimators of Dose-Response Functions, (with Michela Bia, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, and Alessandra Mattei), 2014, Stata Journal, 14(3): 580-604. The Role of Degree Attainment in the Differential Impact of Job Corps on Adolescents and Young Adults, (with Maria Bampasidou, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, and Daniel Parisian), Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 40, 113-156. Bounds on Treatment Effects in the Presence of Sample Selection and Noncompliance: The Wage Effects of Job Corps, (with Xuan Chen), Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2015, 33(4): 523-540. The Effect of Degree Attainment on Arrests: Evidence form a Randomized Social Experiment, (with Vikesh Amin, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, and Daniel Parisian), Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54: 259-273. Going beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training, (with Xuan Chen and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes), Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming. Manuscripts under Review Nonparametric Partial Identification of Causal Net and Mechanism Average Treatment Effects, (with Alfonso Flores-Lagunes). Second revision requested by the Journal of Econometrics. Estimation of Dose-Response Functions and Optimal Doses with a Continuous Treatment. Revision requested by the Journal of Econometrics. Identification and Estimation of Causal Mechanisms and Net Effects of a Treatment under Unconfoundedness, (with Alfonso Flores-Lagunes). Revision requested by the Journal of Applied Econometrics. RESEARCH IN PROGRESS (Selected sample) Bounds on Average Treatment Effects with an Invalid Instrument, with an Application to the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, (with Xuan Chen and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes). Bounding Average and Quantile Effects of Training on Employment and Unemployment Durations under Selection, Censoring, and Noncompliance, (with German Blanco, Xuan Chen, and Alfonso Flores- Lagunes) 2
Robust Statistical Inference on the Health Effects of Military Service, (with Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Xintong Wang). Finite Sample Properties of Estimators of Dose-Response Functions based on the Generalized Propensity Score, (with Michela Bia, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, and Alessandra Mattei). The Effect of Arrests on Short-Run Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence form a Randomized Social Experiment, (with Vikesh Amin, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, and Daniel Parisian). Partial Identification of Mechanism and Net Effects based on Instrumental Variables, (with Alfonso Flores-Lagunes). A Stata Package for Estimation of the Average Effects of Multiple and Multivalued Treatments, (with Michela Bia and Oscar Mitnik). The Association between Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy and Fetal and Infant Health: New Evidence from United States Birth Records, (with Kenneth Chay and Paul Torelli). Evaluating the Infant Health Effects of Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy using Matching and Propensity Score Analyses, (with Kenneth Chay and Paul Torelli). Unbundling the Degree Effect in a Job Training Program for Disadvantaged Youth, (with Maria Bampasidou and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes). Estimation of the Maximum of a Regression Function using a Control Function Approach. GRANTS Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Grant, Cal Poly State University. Title: Bounds on Average Treatment Effects with Invalid Instruments, 2014-2015. Amount: $8,000. National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant. Title: Partial and Point Identification of Causal Net and Mechanism Effects under Different Treatment Assignments with Heterogeneous Effects: Theory and Applications, (with Alfonso Flores-Lagunes), 2009. Amount: $127,732. FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND HONORS Summer Research Award, Orfalea College of Business, Cal Poly State University, 2014-2017. James W. Mclamore Summer Award, University of Miami, 2006, 2007 and 2009. Summer Research Award, School of Business Administration, University of Miami, 2008, 2010-2012. Doctoral Fellowship, University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS), 2001-2004 Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for Labor and Employment, University of California, 2001-2002 Doctoral Scholarship, National Institute of Science and Technology (CONACYT), Mexico, 1999-2003 Mención Honorífica de Excelencia (Highest Honors), Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), Mexico, 1998 Beca de Excelencia (Full Fellowship), Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), Mexico, 1994-1998 3
CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS California Econometrics Conference, Stanford University (upcoming, 2017) European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Geneva, Switzerland (2016) University of California at Irvine (2016) Annual Meeting of the Western Economic Association International, Honolulu (2015) University of California at Davis (2015) Claremont McKenna College (2014) California Econometrics Conference, Stanford University (2014) Southern California Conference in Applied Microeconomics, Claremont McKenna College (2014) Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (2013) Cal Poly State University at San Luis Obispo (2013) Syracuse University (2013) Binghamton University (2013) Annual Meeting of the Society of Labor Economists, Chicago (2012) IZA Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation, Harvard University (2011) North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Washington University in St. Louis (2011) Impact Evaluation Network (IEN) Conference, Latin American and the Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), University of Miami (2010) Carleton University (2009) University of Arizona (2008) IZA Conference on the Evaluation of Labor Market Programs, Bonn, Germany (2007) Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, Bogotá, Colombia (2007) Midwest Econometrics Group Meeting, University of Cincinnati (2006) University of Western Ontario (2005) Columbia University (2005) University of Missouri-Columbia (2005) University of British Columbia (2005) University of Miami (2005) University of California at Davis (2005) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2005) Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) (2005) Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) (2005) Colegio de México (2005) Midwest Econometrics Group Meeting, University of Missouri-Columbia (2003) Graduate Student Research Conference, Institute for Labor and Employment, UC-Santa Cruz (2002). REFEREE The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Econometric Reviews, Empirical Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Ecological Economics, Journal of the Economic Science Association, National Science Foundation. SHORT COURSES AND WORKSHOPS Treatment Effect Bounds, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, D.C., upcoming November 2017. 4
TEACHING Courses taught at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo (note: number of sections taught in a particular quarter in parentheses, if more than one): Probability and Statistics for Econometrics (Graduate), Fall Intersession 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 (2). Microeconometrics (Graduate), Winter 2015, 2016, 2017. Collaborative Industry Projects (Graduate), Winter 2017; Spring 2017. Advanced Econometrics (Introduction to Causal Inference and Program Evaluation) (Undergraduate), Spring 2016; Winter 2017. Mathematical Methods for Economists (Undergraduate), Fall 2013; Spring 2015; Winter 2016, 2017. Intermediate Microeconomics I (Undergraduate), Winter 2014, 2015 (2), 2016; Spring 2014 (2), 2015. Applied Senior Project (Undergraduate), Winter 2014; Spring 2015, 2016, 2017 (2). Courses taught at the University of Miami: Econometrics I: Probability and Statistics for Econometrics (Graduate), Fall 2006, 2008 to 2011. Econometrics III: Applied Econometrics (Graduate), Fall 2005, 2007, 2009 to 2012. Mathematical Methods for Economists II (Graduate), Spring 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013. Mathematical Methods for Economists I (Undergraduate), Fall 2005 to 2007, 2012. Mathematical Methods for Economists II (Undergraduate), Spring 2006, 2008. Economic Principles and Problems (Undergraduate), Spring 2006 to 2008; Fall 2008. DISSERTATION COMMITTEES, Ph.D. (Completion date, initial placement and position) Dissertation Chair Xuan Chen (2013, Renmin University of China, Assistant Professor) Yongmin Zang (2012, Kansas State University, Lecturer) Dissertation Committee Member Epifanio Gaminde Huong Nguyen Lin Zhou Liang Shao (2011, Henan University, China, Assistant Professor) Sherry L. Bartz (2007, University of Miami, Lecturer) SERVICE Recruiting Committee, Economics Department, Cal Poly State University, (2016-2017) Undergraduate Programs Committee, Orfalea College of Business, Cal Poly State University, (2014 to present) Data Analytics Task Force, Orfalea College of Business, Cal Poly State University, (2014 to present) Entrepreneurship Concentration Curriculum Committee, Orfalea College of Business, Cal Poly State University, (2014 to present) Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Committee, Academic Senate, Cal Poly State University, (2013 to present) Ph.D. Econometrics Qualifying Examination Committee, School of Business Administration, University of Miami (2010, 2012) Recruiting Committee, Economics Department, University of Miami (2005, 2007) CONSULTING ACTIVITIES (Selected) 2016-present: U.S. Department of Labor (via Abt Associates). Member of the Technical Working Group for The Cascades Job Corps College and Career Academy Evaluation 5