Gustavo Bobonis
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Professor; Canada Research Chair
Ph.D. (Berkeley, 2005), B.A. (University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, 2000) Office: Max Gluskin House, 150 St. George Street, 304. Phone: 416-946-5299. Fax: 416-978-6713. Email address: Personal website: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~bobonis/ Research fields: Economic development, Labour economics, Political economy, Economic history |
Selected research
- Gustavo Bobonis, Luis R. Cámara Fuertes, Rainer Schwabe, "Monitoring Corruptible Politicians", American Economic Review 106 (8) (2016), 2371–2405.
- Gustavo Bobonis and Peter Morrow, "Labor Coercion and the Accumulation of Human Capital", Journal of Development Economics 108 (2014), 32–53.
- Gustavo Bobonis, Melissa González-Brenes, Roberto Castro, "Public Transfers and Domestic Violence: The Roles of Private Information and Spousal Control", American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 5 (1) (2013), 179–205.
- Gustavo Bobonis, "Is the Allocation of Resources within the Household Efficient? New Evidence from a Randomized Experiment", Journal of Political Economy 117 (3) (2009), 453–503.
- Gustavo Bobonis and Frederico Finan, "Neighborhood Peer Effects in Secondary School Enrollment Decisions", Review of Economics and Statistics 91 (4) (2009), 695–716.
Honors and awards
- UofT Department of Economics Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2015.
- John C. Polanyi Prize in Economics, 2009.
- National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008.
Teaching
- ECO 2701: Development Economics (graduate)
- ECO 2803: Methods for Empirical Microeconomics
- ECO 403: Topics in Development Economics and Policy (undergraduate)
- PPG 2002: Current Issues in International Development Policy
- PPG 200: Microeconomics for Policy Analysis