Research Fellow
(415) 291-4454
lofstrom@ppic.org
curriculum vitae

Expertise
• Immigration and immigrants
   Labor market integration
   Self-employment
   Welfare reform and participation
   Educational attainment
• Entrepreneurship
   Minority self-employment
• Education
   Ethnic differences in high school dropout rates
   General Educational Development (GED) credential

Experience
Assistant Professor, School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas (2002-2007). Post-Doctoral Research Fellow/Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine (2000-2002). Research Associate, Institute for the Study of Labor, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany (1999-2000). Teaching/Research Assistant, Department of Economics and Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego (1995-1999).

Education
Ph.D. (1999) and M.A. (1998), economics, University of California, San Diego.

PPIC Publications
Entrepreneurship among California’s Low-Skilled Workers Public Policy Institute of California, 2010.

Immigrant Legalization: Assessing the Labor Market Effects (co-authored with Laura E. Hill and Joseph M. Hayes). Public Policy Institute of California, 2010.

Other Selected Publications
"Is the GED an Effective Route to Postsecondary Education?” (with John Tyler), Economics of Education Review, forthcoming, 2010.

"Latina Entrepreneurs” (with Timothy Bates), Small Business Economics, 2009, 33:4, pp. 427-439.

"The Dynamics of Immigrant Welfare and Labor Market Behavior,” (with Jorgen Hansen), Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22:4, pp 941-70.