Francisca Antman

Francisca Antman is associate dean of faculty success in the College of Arts and Sciences, professor in the Department of Economics, and research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). 

She earned her PhD in economics from Stanford University in 2007, MA from Stanford in 2005, and BA 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.

From 2012 to 2017, she served on the American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (AEA CSMGEP). She is currently serving on the American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (AEA CSWEP), as the co-director of the AEA CSMGEP Mentoring Program, and served as the chair of the Scholarship and Awards Committee for the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) from 2020-2022. She is president of the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) for 2024. She was on leave at the University of Carlos III (Madrid, Spain) during the 2022-23 academic year.