Marcela González Rivas is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of City and Regional Planning. My principal interest is in the causes of sustained inequality in Latin America, with a goal of understanding how the inequality might be alleviated. To date her work has focused on regional inequality -- inequality between sub-national units -- and particularly how trade policies have affected this inequality. However, she is beginning to work on individual-level inequality as well, with a recent paper on water access in indigenous communities in Mexico. Ms. Rivas became interested in policy debates during her earlier work with the World Bank, the Mexican Ministry of Finance, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the North Carolina Department of Commerce.
education
- B.A., University of the Americas, 1994
- M.Sc., London School of Economics, 1997
- Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007
publications
Rivas, Marcela González. Sep 2007. "The effects of trade openness for regional inequality in Mexico," The Annals of Regional Science. 41(3):545-561. Rivas, Marcela González. Oct 2005. "Review: Uneven regional development, the European Union and its new member states," Regional Studies. 39(7):1006-1007.
courses
- CRP 6700: Planning and Development in Developing Nations (special focus on Latin America)
- CRP 6720: International Institutions
- CRP 8300: Seminar on Regional Science, Planning and Policy AnalysisImmigrant Integration in the U.S.
- Research Design
- Urban Spatial Structure
- Urban Studies
research
- Economic development
- Globalization and trade openness
- Regional economics
- Poverty and inequality among and between groups
- Effect of corruption on economic growth
- Inequality to water access
