Sonia C. Pereira

  Title:  Assistant Professor (term)

  Office:  5b Lehman
 
  Current Office Hours & Teaching Schedule

  Phone: (212) 854-5140 3fax: (212) 854-8947

  email: spereira@barnard.edu
              and sp2420@columbia.edu

PhD	Economics, University College London, 2002
MSc	Economics, University College London, 1996
BA	Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1994

 Teaching Specialties:

 Microeconomics
 Inequality and Poverty
 Social Exclusion

 Publications:

 “Wage Growth And Job Mobility In The U.K. And Germany”, Joint work with Christian Dustmann, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, vol. 61, issue 3, pages 374-393.

“Does Inward Foreign Direct Investment Boost the Productivity of Domestic Firms?”, joint work with Jonathan Haskel and Mathew Slaughter, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, vol. 89, issue 3, pages 482-496.

“The Impact of Minimum Wages on Youth Employment in Portugal”, European Economic Review, 2003, vol. 47, issue 2, pages 229-244.

Current Research:

Does classroom based physical activity impact student behaviour and performance? Evaluating a New Haven public schools’ intervention.
Joint work with Susan Peters, Project Coordinator.

For a Podcast go to: http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/podcasts.aspx

Featured in the New Haven Independent:
http://newhavenindependent.org/archives/2008/12/this_paw_may_no.php