Francisca M. Antman

Research Fellow

University of Colorado, Boulder

francisca.antman@colorado.edu

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Research Interests

Francisca Antman is Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado Boulder, faculty affiliate in the Population Program at the CU Population Center, and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 2007, M.A. from Stanford in 2005, and B.A. in Economics from Harvard University in 2001. She is a development and labor economist with special interests in international migration and human capital investments as well as the allocation of resources within households and families. Other recent projects explore the construction of race and ethnic identity as well as economic development in historical perspective. Her work has appeared in many top academic journals including the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Journal of Development Economics, and the Journal of Human Resources, and her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in January 2012.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18001

Can Better Information Reduce College Gender Gaps? The Impact of Relative Grade Signals on Academic Outcomes for Students in Introductory Economics

Francisca M. Antman, Evelyn Skoy, Nicholas E. Flores

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17829

The Long-Run Impacts of Mentoring Underrepresented Minority Groups in Economics

Francisca M. Antman, Sheng Qu, Bruce A. Weinberg, Trevon D. Logan

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2025, 115, 522–28.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17408

Incorporating Changes in Race, Gender, and Academic Field at Colleges and Universities - A Comment on 'The Ebbing Tide: How Will Higher Education Adapt to Demographic Change?'

Francisca M. Antman

forthcoming in: John Y. Campbell and Kaye Husbands Fealing (eds.), Financing Institutions of Higher Education, University of Chicago Press for NBER.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17195

Ethnic Identity and Anti-immigrant Sentiment: Evidence from Proposition 187

Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan

forthcoming in: Randall Akee, Lawrence F. Katz, and Mark Loewenstein (eds.), Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century, University of Chicago Press, 2026

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17169

The Long-Run Impacts of Banning Affirmative Action in US Higher Education

Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan, Michael F. Lovenheim

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2024, 40 (3), 607–628

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17164

When Beer Is Safer than Water: Beer Availability and Mortality from Waterborne Illnesses

Francisca M. Antman, James Flynn

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 171, 103343

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16980

Half Empty and Half Full? Women in Economics and the Rise in Gender-Related Research

Francisca M. Antman, Kirk Doran, Xuechao Qian, Bruce A. Weinberg

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2024, 114, 226-231