Marcos A. Rangel, Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy

Please note: Marcos has left the "Center for Latin American Caribbean Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Marcos A. Rangel is an applied microeconomist. His research focuses on the patterns of accumulation of human capital with particular attention to the intra-family decision process (parents and children), to the impact of policies to foment education and health, and to racial differentials. His research has contributed to a better understanding of how the negotiations between mother and fathers, and also how families insert themselves into societies, influence the allocation of resources towards investment in human capital of children.

Recent projects branched out in investigating the impact of prenatal care policies and maternal labor regulations over child outcomes, focusing on the innovative use of data to infer causal effects of policies. Current work takes advantage of a satellite pictures of areas in which agricultural activities rely on the use of fires to compute the impact of agricultural development, environmental regulation and business cycles over health outcomes of infants and mothers-to-be.

Rangel is a research affiliate with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), the Population Research Center at NORC/University of Chicago, and the Duke Population Research Institute (DuPRI). He is also an associate editor of The Journal of Development Economics. 

Contact Info:

Office Location:	262 Rubenstein Hall, Box 90312, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 613-7340
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.marcos-a-rangel.com/

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• PUBPOL 813.01, QUANTITATIVE EVAL METH Synopsis

  Sanford 03, F 08:45 AM-09:35 AM; Sanford 03, MW 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

• PUBPOL 813.02, QUANTITATIVE EVAL METH Synopsis

  Sanford 03, F 01:40 PM-02:30 PM; Sanford 03, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• PUBPOL 812.001, STATISTICS FOR POLICY MAKERS Synopsis

  Sanford 05, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• PUBPOL 812.002, STATISTICS FOR POLICY MAKERS Synopsis

  Rubenstein 153, TuTh 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

• PUBPOL 812.01D, STATISTICS FOR POLICY MAKERS Synopsis

  Rubenstein 153, F 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• PUBPOL 812.02D, STATISTICS FOR POLICY MAKERS Synopsis

  Sanford 05, F 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

Education:

Ph.D.	University of California, Los Angeles	2004
M.A.	University of California, Los Angeles	2002
M.A.	Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)	1999
A.B.	Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)	1997

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Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Holbein, JB; Rangel, MA; Moore, R; Croft, M, Is Voting Transformative? Expanding and Meta-Analyzing the Evidence, Political Behavior, vol. 45 no. 3 (September, 2023), pp. 1015-1044 [doi]  [abs]
2. Bacolod, M; Blum, BS; Rangel, MA; Strange, WC, Learners in cities: Agglomeration and the spatial division of cognition, Regional Science and Urban Economics, vol. 98 (January, 2023) [doi]  [abs]
3. Lowell, W; Dickerson, S; Gassman-Pines, A; Gifford, E; Rangel, M, Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Case Positivity and Social Context: The Role of Housing, Neighborhood, and Health Insurance, Housing Policy Debate (August, 2022), pp. 1-26, Informa UK Limited [doi]
4. Rangel, MA; Tomé, R, Health and the Megacity: Urban Congestion, Air Pollution, and Birth Outcomes in Brazil., International journal of environmental research and public health, vol. 19 no. 3 (January, 2022), pp. 1151 [doi]  [abs]
5. Bitler, M; Genetian, LA; Gibson-Davis, C; Rangel, MA, Means-Tested Safety Net Programs and Hispanic Families: Evidence from Medicaid, SNAP, and WIC., The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 696 no. 1 (July, 2021), pp. 274-305 [doi]  [abs]