Raquel Fernández
Raquel Fernández is an economist and currently the Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Economics at New York University. She is also a fellow of the Econometric Society. Career and education Fernández obtained a B.A. in economics from Princeton University in 1981 and a Ph.D in from Columbia University in 1988. From 1987 to 1996, she was an assistant and then associate professor at Boston University. In 1996, she joined New York University as an associate professor. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics. She was on the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Literature. Research Her research focuses on economic inequality, cultural economics, development economics, gender economics and sovereign debt. Her works have been cited over 12000 times and she has published papers in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, The American Economic Review and the Review of Economics Studies. Her most cited paper, "Resistance to reform: Status quo bias in the presence of individual-specific uncertainty" with Dani Rodrik asks why politicians rarely adopt optimal policies as recommended by