Research Seminars on Mexico and U.S.-Mexico Relations
Winter Quarter 2007
A Preliminary Analysis of Political Messages from Mexico's 2006 Elections
 Dr. Scott Desposato joined the faculty at the University of California San Diego in the Fall of 2005. His general research interests include democratic institutions, campaigning, mass behavior, and political methodology. Specific projects have examined redistricting in the United States, electoral rules and federalism in Brazil, party-switching by politicians, and statistical methods for studying legislatures. Published research has appeared in The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and Political Analysis. His latest project, for which he has received a National Science Foundation award, examines the determinants and impacts of negative campaigning across different institutional settings.
Is Local Beautiful?
Federalism and Decentralization
In Mexico
 Dr. Fausto Hernández recieved his PhD degree in economics from Ohio State University. He has been Director of Budget in Mexico, and a member of the Research Department at the Mexican Stock Exchange. He has authored three books and numerous articles in academic journals. His research interests include fiscal issues, financial markets, and political development in Mexico. Dr. Hernández has also been a consultant for the Mexican and Guatemalan governments and several international organizations such as the IMF, the World Bank, and the IADB. He currently serves as Director of the prestigious academic journal El Trimestre Económico.
Informality, Segmentation and
Earnings in Urban Mexico
 Dr. Robert Duval Hernandez earned his Ph.D. degree in Economics from Cornell University in 2006. He currently teaches undergraduate courses in “Economics of Immigration” and “Economics of Mexico” for the Department of Economics at UCSD, while developing his research as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for U.S. Mexican Studies.
His research areas are Labor Economics, Economic Development and
Economics of Immigration. He will present a paper studying informality in Mexican labor markets and the implications of segmentation on earnings mobility.
Optimizing HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs:
Towards Multidimensional Allocative Efficiency
 Sergio Bautista, Economist at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico, received his BA in Economics at the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City and his MA in Health Economics at CIDE. Since 2001, he has collaborated with the National Institute of Public Health to focus research on the economy and efficiency of interventions in HIV/AIDS. Mr. Bautista received financing from the Inter-American Development Bank to complete a thesis work on the topic and, in 2004, completed a published study evaluating the impact
of the Opportunidades program on the use of primary medical services in Mexico.
Mr. Bautista currently leads a study of externalities and spill-over effects on the health of the Opportunidades program and, in collaboration with a group of investigators in Harvard, a Markov cost analysis model evaluating the effectiveness of preventative interventions for HIV/AIDS in Mexico. He currently teaches graduate courses at the National Institute of Public Health.
Co-sponsored with the Division of International Health and Cross Cultural Medicine, UCSD.
Health of Hispanics in the United States
What We Can Learn from Looking at Mexico and the U.S. Combined
 Dr. Rebeca Wong received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1987. She currently serves as Associate Director of the Maryland Population Research Center and Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland. Dr. Wong's research agenda focuses on the economic consequences of population aging, in particular in Mexico and among immigrant Hispanics in the U.S.
Over the last 15 years, Dr. Wong has served as co-Principal Investigator in the Mexican Health and Aging Study, financed by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. The study aimed to locate research on Mexico's unique health dynamics in a broad socioeconomic context, and it included a national longitudinal survey of multiple purposes among population of middle and old age.
Details of the study can be found at the project website http://www.mhas.pop.upenn.edu.
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