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Updated: April 2015
ALEX SOLÍS
Department of Economics, Uppsala University,
P.O. Box 513 SE 75120, Uppsala, Sweden
alex.solis@nek.uu.se - +46(0)18-4715125
website: http://alexsolis.webs.com/
CURRENT POSITION:
2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Uppsala University.
2013 Uppsala Center of Labor Studies
EDUCATION:
2012
2008
1998
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Agricultural and Resources Economics.
MSc, University of California, Berkeley, Agricultural and Resources Economics.
BA, University of Concepción, Chile, Economics.
PUBLICATIONS:
1. “Patterns of Pass-Through of Commodity Price Shocks to Retail Prices”. American
Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2009; Vol 95 Issue 5: 1456-1461. (with Peter Berck,
Ephraim Leibtag, and Sofia Villas-Boas)
WORKING PAPERS:
1. Credit Access and College Enrollment.
R&R Journal of Political Economy
2. Returns to Elite Higher Education in the Labor and Marriage Market
With Katja Kaufmann & Matthias Messner.
3. Does Higher Education Cause Political Participation? Evidence From a Regression
Discontinuity Design
WORK IN PROGRESS:
1. Elite Higher Education: Implications for Career Decisions, Fertility and Child Quality
(With Katja Kaufmann & Matthias Messner).
2. Income expectations and overconfidence on Human Capital Decisions.
(With Rosario Macera)
3. Health Externalities of Higher Education: Evidence from a regression Discontinuity
Design.
4. The effects of birth weight in long run educational outcomes.
5. Practical Methods for Characterizing Marginal Populations
(With Peter Hull and Chris Walters)
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2015 Fall
[Planned] Labor Economics for Master. Dep. Economics, Uppsala University.
2015 Spring
Econometrics II. PhD Level. Department Economics, Uppsala University.
2014 Fall
Labor Economics for Master. Department Economics, Uppsala University.
2014 Spring
Econometrics II. PhD Level. Department Economics, Uppsala University.
2011 Spring
Graduate Student Instructor, Intermediate microeconomics (IAS106),
University of California, Berkeley.
2011 Summer
Graduate Student Instructor, Macroeconomics Analysis for Business
Decisions (Business Administration 101B), University of California, Berkeley.
2011 Spring
Graduate Student Instructor, Intermediate macroeconomics (Economic
Department 100B), University of California, Berkeley.
2010 Summer
Instructor, Intermediate macroeconomics (International and Area Studies
107), University of California, Berkeley.
2010 Spring
Graduate Student Instructor, Introductory Econometrics, University of
California, Berkeley.
2002 - 2007
(Lecturer, Department of Economics, Universidad Católica de Concepción,
Chile) Econometrics, Macroeconomics & Microeconomics, International
Economics.
2002 - 2003
(Lecturer, Department of Economics, Universidad San Sebastián,
Concepción, Chile) Macroeconomics, Microeconomics.
2000 - 2002
(Lecturer, Department of Economics, Universidad de Talca & University de
Concepción) Macroeconomics, Finance, and Introductory Economics.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Spring 2013 Organizer of the Uppsala Center of Labor Studies Seminar
Fall 2009 & Fall 2010
Fall 2008, Spring 2009
2006 to 2007.
2002-2003
Research Assistant for Elisabeth Sadoulet and Alain de Janvry, UC
Berkeley.
Research Assistant for Sofia Villas-Boas and Peter Berck. UC Berkeley.
Director of Department of Economics at the School of Economics and
Management, Catholic University of Concepción, Chile
Department of Economics Coordinator (University San Sebastián,
Chile)
HONORS, GRANTS AND AWARDS:
2012
UC Berkeley Summer Grant
2011
Research Grant, Center for Equitable Growth, UC Berkeley
2011
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley
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2011
2010
2010
2007-2009
2007
1998 - 1999
1993 - 1997
1993
UC Berkeley Summer Grant
Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER) UC Berkeley Dissertation
research Award.
Corporación Andina de Fomento First prize Research Paper Program.
FULBRIGHT-Mecesup Scholar, ARE UC Berkeley PhD Program.
Universidad Católica de Concepción, Chile. Doctoral Scholarship.
School of Economics Scholarship University of Concepcion
Education Ministry, Excellence Scholarship
National Best Score on mathematics, National University Admission Test.
PRESENTATIONS (PAST AND PLANNED):
2015
AEA meetings; CSEF, University of Naples Federico II.
2014
The Swedish Institute for Social Research, SOFI; Department of Economics,
University of Gothenburg.
2013
NBER Summer Institute, Labor Studies; Department of Economics PUC Chile;
Management Science & Economics Workshop, DII, Universidad de Chile; 8th
Nordic Summer Institute in Labor Economics, Aarhus University ; Economics
of Education and Education Policy Workshop, IFAU, Sweden; Department of
Economics, Stockholm School of Economics.
2012
Interamerican Development Bank; Latin American and Caribbean Economics
Association (LACEA) Annual Meeting; New Economic School, Moscow;
Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro; University of San
Francisco; University Pompeu Fabra; Uppsala University.
2011
NEUDC 2011 Yale University; University of San Francisco; University of
California Berkeley, Department of Economics and Agricultural and
Resources Economics Department; World Bank/IAE Workshop “SocioEconomic Mobility and the Middle Class in Latin America, Barcelona; II
Workshop on Economics of Education, Universitat de Barcelona; MOOD2011-11th Doctoral Workshop in Economic Theory & Econometrics, Rome;
Pacific Conference on Development Economics (Pac-Dev).
2010
Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association (LACEA) Annual
Meeting; UC Berkeley: Dept. of Economics Development Lunch, Giannini
Agricultural and Resource Economics Student Conference and ARE
Development workshop.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Referee for American Economic Journal: Applied Economics; Economic Development and
Cultural Change; Journal of African Economics; Journal of Human Resources; Journal of Labor
Economics; Journal of Public Economics; Revista Economía Aplicada.
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OTHER INFORMATION:
AFFILIATIONS:
LANGUAGES:
REFERENCES:
David Card
Per-Anders Edin
Frederico Finan
Nils Gottfries
American Economic Association, European Economic Association,
Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association
English, Spanish (Native)
Department of Economics, University of California Berkeley
card@econ.berkeley.edu
Department of Economics, Uppsala University
per-anders.edin@nek.uu.se
Department of Economics, University of California Berkeley
ffinan@econ.berkeley.edu
Department of Economics, Uppsala University
nils.gottfries@nek.uu.se
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