Staff Profiles<\/a><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_accordion_item][\/et_pb_accordion][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.4.8″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/06\/Francesc_Ortega.jpg” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” alt=”Francesc Ortega pointing to a projector screen presentation while giving a lecture.” title_text=”Francesc Ortega” sticky_enabled=”0″ align=”center” border_color_all=”#000000″ border_width_all=”1px”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.10″ text_font=”Open Sans||||||||” text_font_size=”16px” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n
Francesc Ortega, the Dina Axelrad Perry Professor of Economics, is a prolific scholar of both immigration and climate change, two topics very close to home for New Yorkers. Describing himself as pragmatic and data-driven, he analyzes big data sets that can illuminate real-world patterns and, by extension, paths for public policy.<\/p>\n
By exploring what undocumented workers added to the U.S. economy, Ortega was able to quantify their workforce contribution at \u201cabout 3% of GDP, which is not a small chunk.\u201d In debates over DACA and the DREAM Act, he saw a need for cost-benefit analysis. Research by Ortega and his collaborators (including Amy Hsin in Sociology and Ryan Edwards at University of California, San Francisco) has shown that by offering legal work, DACA raised Dreamers\u2019 annual economic contribution to society by $7,000, but also distorted their life decisions: Because their earnings are crucial to their families\u2019 financial survival, these young people chose temporarily legal jobs over college. He estimates that passage of the DREAM Act would instead encourage them to finish college, which would have a lasting positive effect on their careers and roughly double their economic contribution to society.<\/p>\n
Ortega has also become interested in climate change or more precisely, the economic impacts and policy implications of sealevel rise for coastal cities, especially New York. Since Hurricane Sandy, he and S\u00fcleyman Taspinar (Economics) have determined that homes in affected areas have lost value\u2014indications that today\u2019s housing market reveals growing awareness of climate change. Ortega\u2019s current research concerns the National Flood Insurance Program, which has \u201ccontributed to getting too many people to choose to live too close to the water.\u201d He is studying businesses in flood zones, too.<\/p>\n
A native of Spain, Ortega completed his BA at the University of Barcelona, MA at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and PhD at New York University. A Queens College faculty member since 2012, he is intent on not only teaching his students the discipline, but also helping them develop a core competence of their own, with a research portfolio to show graduate schools and employers. \u201cIf you\u2019ve developed your own research and you\u2019ve spent a semester working with a professor here on that topic, you\u2019re going to know more about that than the person interviewing you,\u201d he observes. \u201cThat\u2019s going to look very good.\u201d<\/p>\n
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