Rebecca Lessem

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Assistant Professor of Economics

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Labor economics, development economics, applied microeconomics.

Website and/or personal homepage:
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rlessem/

Published Papers: 

• The Political Orientation of Newspaper Endorsements in U.S. Elections, 1940-2002
  Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2006.
  (with: Stephen Ansolabehere, James Snyder)
  
  

Working Papers: 

• Labor Migration and Wage Growth in Malaysia
  August, 2011.
  
  
• Open Borders: Puerto Rican Migration to the U.S.
  August, 2011.
  
  
• Mexico-U.S. Immigration: Effects of Wages and Border Enforcement
  August, 2011.
  
  

Awards:

• Christensen Award in Empirical Economics, University of Wisconsin - 2010

Courses Taught:

• Adv'd Econ Analysis II (Adv'd Econometrics) (47902)
  (Ph.D. Program)

• Public Economics (73352)
  (B.S. in Economics Program)
  • 2012, Spring (Section: A)

• Development Economics (73394)
  (B.S. in Economics Program)
  • 2013, Fall (Section: A)
  • 2012, Fall (Section: A)
  • 2011, Fall (Section: A)

• Senior Project (73497)
  (B.S. in Economics Program)
  • 2013, Fall (Section: A)
  • 2012, Fall (Section: A)

• Tepper Senior Honors Thesis I (73500)
  (B.S. in Economics Program)
  • 2012, Fall (Section: A)
  • 2011, Fall (Section: A)

• Tepper Senior Honors Thesis II (73501)
  (B.S. in Economics Program)
  • 2013, Spring (Section: A)
  • 2012, Spring (Section: A)