ERIKA ARENAS July 1, 2016 University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Sociology, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 (310) 889-4897 earenas@soc.ucsb.edu ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology Research Associate, Broom Center for Demography University of California, Santa Barbara, July 2016 - Present Research Associate Centro de Análisis y Medición del Bienestar Social, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico, May 2014 - Present Visiting Scholar California Center of Population Research University of California Los Angeles, CA, September 2014 June 2016 EDUCATION PhD. in Sociology, University of California Los Angeles, September 2014 M.A. in Sociology, University of California Los Angeles, June 2008 M.A. in Economics, University of California Los Angeles, June 2006 B.A. in Economics (Honors), Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, June 2002 RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS Internal and international migration, social inequality, social stratification, poverty, social development, public policy, family PUBLICATIONS Arenas, Erika, Kye, Bongoh, Graciela Teruel, and Luis Rubalcava. (forthcoming), The impact of education and health heterogeneity on Generational Support Ratios: a cross-national comparison between Mexico and Korea, Ageing and Society Arenas, Erika, Noreen Goldman, Anne Pebley and Graciela Teruel. 2015. Return Migration to Mexico: Does Health Matter?, Demography, 52(6)1853-1868 1
Arenas Erika, Susan Parker, Luis Rubalcava and Graciela Teruel. 2015. Evaluación del Programa del Seguro Popular del 2002 al 2005: Impacto en la Utilización de Servicios Médicos, en el Gasto en Salud y en el Mercado Laboral, El Trimestre Económico, 82(328)807-845 Kye, Bongoh, Erika Arenas, Graciela Teruel and Luis Rubalcava. 2014. Education and Elderly Health in South Korea: A demographic Approach, Demographic Research, 30(26)753-794 Arenas, Erika, Susan Parker, Luis Rubalcava, Omar Stabridis and Graciela Teruel. 2013. Evaluación del Programa Oportunidades. Impacto en el sector laboral y escolar in Uso de una encuesta panel para evaluaciones de impacto: Ensayo metodológico con la ENNVIH 2002-2005 published by Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social, México D.F., CONEVAL 2013 Arenas, Erika, Susan Parker, Luis Rubalcava and Graciela Teruel. 2013. Evaluación del Seguro Popular, in Uso de una encuesta panel para evaluaciones de impacto: Ensayo metodológico con la ENNVIH 2002-2005, published by Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social, México D.F., CONEVAL 2013 Teruel, Graciela, Luis Rubalcava and Erika Arenas. 2012. Migration in the Mexican Family Life Survey, Chapter 2 in Migration and Remittances from Mexico: Trends, Impacts and New Challenges, edited by Cuecuechea, Alfredo and Carla Pederzini, published by Lexington Books and Imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publising Group, January 2012. Arenas, Erika. 2004. Efectos de la apertura comercial en la brecha salarial entre trabajadores calificados y no calificados en México durante el periodo 1987-2000. Gaceta Económica, 9(18)5-39 MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVISION Yahirun, Jenjira, Erika Arenas, and Graciela Teruel. Left Behind: The Effects of Offspring s Migration on Parental Mental Health in Mexico, California Center of Population Research, Working Paper PWP-CCPR-2010-060 (under review) Arenas, Erika, Graciela Teruel, Susan Parker, Luis Rubalcava. Impact Evaluation of Seguro Popular on Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure, the Use of Health Services, Health Outcomes from 2002 to 2009-2011 (under review) Arenas, Erika, Luis Rubalcava, and Graciela Teruel, Social Determinants of School Continuation in Mexico for the cohort born between 1991-1993: Evidence using panel data (under review) Arenas, Erika, Susan Parker, Luis Rubalcava, and Graciela Teruel, Do Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Affect Fertility and Marriage: Long Term Impacts of a Mexican Cash Transfer Program (in progress) Arenas, Erika. Educational homogamy in Cohabitation and Marriage: The Mexican Case (in progress) Arenas, Erika, and Chinyere Osuji. Skin color homogamy in Mexico (in progress) 2
Arenas, Erika, Hector Conroy, Jenna Nobles. Recent Trends in Internal and International Mexican Migration: Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey, California Center of Population Research PWP-CCPR-2008-034. 2008. Arenas, Erika. Health Selection of Internal Migrants in Mexico: Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey, California Center of Population Research, Working Paper PWP-CCPR-2008-031.2008. MONETARY AWARDS UC MEXUS Dissertation Fellowship, January 2014 - Competitive Fellowship within the UC system ($6,000) Del Amo Summer Fellowship, Summer 2013 - Competitive Fellowship within UCLA Graduate Division ($2,500) Summer Travel Grant, Summer 2013 - Sociology Departmental Grant ($500) Bixby Foundation Fellowship, April - May 2013 - Community and Health Sciences Departmental Grant (Tuition plus $1,200 for monthly stipend) Fogarty International Center Fellowship, 2006-2011 - CCPR Departmental Fellowship (Tuition plus $1,000 monthly stipend) Wilshire Foundation Summer Internship Award, Summer 2010 - Competitive Fellowship within UCLA Graduate Division ($5,000) UCLA Graduate Division Fellowship, Sept. 2007 June 2010 - Sociology Departmental Grant ($500 monthly stipend) UC MEXUS Conacyt Fellowship, Sept. 2004 Sept. 2009 - National competitive fellowship (Tuition plus $1,290 for monthly stipend) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Social Determinants of School Continuation in Mexico for the cohort born between 1991-1993: Evidence using panel data, Presentation at the Population Association of America Meeting in Washington, D.C., 2016 (with Graciela Teruel and Luis Rubalcava) Skin Color Homogamy in Mexico, Presentation at the Population Association of America Meeting, May 2015, San Diego Do Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Affect Fertility and Marriage: Long Term Impacts of a Mexican Cash Transfer Program, Presentation at the Population Association of America Meeting, May 2015, San Diego (with Susan Parker, Graciela Teruel and Luis Rubalcava) 3
Social Determinants of School Continuation in Mexico for the cohort born between 1991-1993: Evidence using panel data, Presentation at the Colloquium on Social Mobility in the Americas hosted by the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, April 2015, Palo Alto (with Graciela Teruel and Luis Rubalcava) Educational homogamy in Cohabitation and Marriage: The Mexican Case, Presentation at the Population Association of America Meeting, May 2014, Boston The impact of education and health heterogeneity on Generational Support Ratios in Mexico, Presentation at the American Sociological Association, August 2013, New York Assortative Mating Patterns in Mexico by Education, Skin Color, and Age Using the Mexican Family Life Survey, May 2012, Poster Presentation at the Population Association of America Meeting, San Francisco (with Bongoh Kye, Graciela Teruel and Luis Rubalcava) Education and Elderly Health in South Korea: A Demographic Approach, May 2012, Poster Presentation at the Population Association of America Meeting, San Francisco (with Bongoh Kye, Graciela Teruel and Luis Rubalcava) Education and Elderly Health in South Korea: A Demographic Approach, RC28, 2011 meeting in the University of Iowa (with Bongoh Kye, Graciela Teruel and Luis Rubalcava) Left Behind: The Effects of Children s Migration on Parents Mental Health in Mexico, Presentation at the Population Association of America Meeting, April 2010, Dallas (with Jenjira Yahirun) Tracking across Borders: Experience of the Mexican Family Life Survey, Presentation at the Population Association of America Meeting, April 2009, Detroit Health Selection of Internal Migrants in Mexico: Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey, Presentation at the Population Association of America Meeting, April 2008, New Orleans Tracking across Borders: Experience of the Mexican Family Life Survey, Presentation at U.S.-Mexico Binational Conference sponsored by the Center for U.S. Mexican Studies and Center on Pacific Economies at the University of California San Diego, November 2007, San Diego PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2009 Techniques and protocols for collecting anthropometric data, biomakers, and other health measures for the Mexican Family Life Survey, National Institute of Public Health (Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública), Cuernavaca, Mexico, June 2009 2008 C2S Summer Biomarker Institute, The Center on Social Disparities and Health Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, June 2008 2008 Binational Meeting on Gerontology, ITESO, University of Northern Texas, and Northern Kentucky, August 2008 4
SERVICE Peer review Research on Aging Latin America Economic Review Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences Research on Social Stratification and Mobility MEMBERSHIPS American Sociological Association Population Association of America LANGUAGES Spanish (native) 5