Italo A. Gutierrez
Associate Economist, RAND Corporation
1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90407
Tel: (+1) 310.393.0411 x6313
Email: italo@rand.org
http://www.rand.org/about/people/g/gutierrez_italo.html
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Economics, University of Michigan, 2013
M.Phil. in in Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School, 2007
B.A. in Economics, Universidad del Pacifico, Lima-Peru, 2001
EMPLOYMENT and POSITIONS
Associate Economist, RAND, 2013-present
Research Assistant, National Poverty Center, University of Michigan, 2010-2011
Research Assistant, Research Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 2007-2009
Graduate Student Researcher, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, 2007-2009
Doctoral Fellow, RAND Corporation, 2005-2007
Analyst, Program Evaluation Team, The Broad Foundation, 2005-2007
Analyst, Economic Studies Unit, APOYO Consultoria, Lima-Peru, 2000-2005
FIELDS of INTEREST
Labor Economics; Health Economics; Development Economics; Applied Microeconometrics
TEACHING
Faculty, Microeconomics II, Pardee RAND Graduate School (PRGS), 2013-2014
Graduate Student Instructor, Principles of Economics, University of Michigan, 2009-2010
Teaching Assistant, Regression Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School (PRGS), 2007
Teaching Assistant, Econometrics, Pardee RAND Graduate School (PRGS), 2007
Teaching Assistant, Probability and Statistics, Pardee RAND Graduate School (PRGS), 2006
AWARDS, HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS
Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship, 2012
Sweetland/Rackham Dissertation Institute Fellowship, 2012
The Garfield Economic Impact Award, joint with Darius N. Lakdawalla, Dana P. Goldman, PierreCarl Michaud, Neeraj Sood, Robert Lempert, Ze Cong and Han de Vries, 2009
Distinction in the Economics Department’s Ph.D. preliminary examination in Econometrics Theory,
University of Michigan, 2009
Distinction in the Economics Department’s Ph.D. preliminary examination in Microeconomics
Theory, University of Michigan, 2008
Distinction in the Economics Department’s Ph.D. preliminary examination in Macroeconomics
Theory, University of Michigan, 2008
Distinction in the School’s Ph.D. preliminary examination in Statistics and Econometrics, Pardee
RAND Graduate School, 2007
Fulbright Scholarship (declined), 2005
PUBLICATIONS
Gutierrez, Italo A. “Job Insecurity, Unemployment Insurance and On-the-Job Search: Evidence from
Older American Workers”. Labour Economics. Forthcoming.
H. Luke Shaefer and Italo A. Gutierrez, “The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and
Material Hardships among Low-Income Households with Children” Social Service Review,
87(4), 753-779, 2013.
Neeraj Sood, Han de Vries, Italo A. Gutierrez, Darius N. Lakdawalla and Dana P. Goldman, “The
effect of regulation on pharmaceutical revenues: Experience in nineteen countries”, Health
Affairs, 28(1), w125-w137, 2009.
Lakdawalla, Darius N., Dana P. Goldman, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Neeraj Sood, Robert Lempert, Ze
Cong, Han de Vries, and Italo A. Gutierrez, “US pharmaceutical policy in a global
marketplace”, Health Affairs, 28(1), w138-w150, 2009.
WORKING PAPERS
Gutierrez, Italo A., and Pierre-Carl Michaud. “Employer Downsizing and Older Workers' Health”.
No. 9140. IZA Discussion Papers, 2015.
Gutierrez, Italo A. and Tanya Byker, “Evaluation of a female sterilization campaign in Peru: An
application of propensity score reweighting methods with unobserved participation status”.
Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, WR-1118, 2015.
Italo A. Gutierrez, “Do Unemployment Benefits Affect Workers’ Job Search? Evidence from
Establishment Closures in West Germany,” mimeo.
Italo A. Gutierrez and Jose Gallegos, “The Effect of Civil Conflicts on Domestic Violence: The Case
of Peru”, mimeo.
PEER-REVIEWED RAND REPORTS
Nicholas Burger, Italo A. Gutierrez, Krishna B. Kumar, Jill E. Luoto, Dhaval Monani and Kavita
Raichura. “The Socioeconomic Effects of the Working Poor Moving to Permanent
Dwellings. The Case of the Ashray Affordable Housing Pilot Project in India”, RAND
Research Report 714, May 2014.
GRANTS
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ($441,606). “Technological Change, Training and Employment of Older
Workers”. Role: Co-PI, 2015-2018
U.S. Department of Labor and University of Michigan Poverty Research Grant Program, “Does
Unemployment Insurance Discourage On-the-Job Search? Evidence from Older American
Workers”, Role: PI, 2011-2012
PRESENTATIONS
2015: Fourth SOLE-EALE World Meetings, Montreal, Canada; Workshop on Health and the
Labour Market, Molskroen, Denmark; Southern California Conference in Applied
Microeconomics (SoCCAM), Claremont McKenna College.
2014: LACEA-LAMES, Sao Paulo.
2012: 12th Conference on the Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (CAED), Atlanta;
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Research Conference
(scheduled, co-author presented), Baltimore; Population Association of America (PAA)
Annual Meeting (scheduled, co-author presented), San Francisco.
2011: IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics, Ammersee, Germany.
2010: Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference (poster), MIT.
OTHER
Citizenship:
Languages :
Peru, Italy
English (advanced), Spanish (native)