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Dr. Monica Deza is an assistant professor of economics at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, teaching Economic Statistics and Intermediate Microeconomics. Her research interests include economics of crime, economics of risky health behaviors, applied microeconometrics and labor economics. A common theme in her work is how various policies affect the adolescent propensity to engage in crime and drug consumption.

Dr. Deza’s research has been featured in numerous publications including the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and the Journal of Econometrics. She received her BA in economics and applied mathematics and her PhD in economics from the University of California in Berkeley.

In addition to her work at Hunter, she is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Program on Health Economics and a research affiliate at the Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorder, HCV and HIV (CHERISH).

• University of California Berkeley (PhD)
• University of California Berkeley (BA)

• Chalfin, Aaron and Monica Deza. “New Evidence on Mexican Immigration and Crime in the United States: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Immigration Enforcement. Forthcoming at Criminology and Public Policy” (Accepted March 15, 2020)
• Chalfin, Aaron, Shooshan Danagoulian, and Monica Deza. “More Sneezing, Less Crime? Seasonal Allergies, Transitory Costs and the Market for Offenses”. Journal of Health Economics (Accepted August 27, 2019)
• Deza, Monica (2019) “Graduated Driver Licensing and Teen Fertility”. Economics and Human Biology (Accepted March 12, 2019)
• Andrews, Rodney and Monica Deza. “Local Natural Resources and Crime: Evidence from Oil Price Fluctuations in Texas”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization vol. 151: 123-142 (Accepted, February 10, 2018) Previous Title: “The Effect of Oil Price Shocks on Crime: Evidence from Texas”
• Chalfin, Aaron and Monica Deza (2017) “The Intergenerational Effects of Education on Delinquency”. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization vol. 159: 553-571 (Accepted, July 26, 2017)
• Chalfin, Aaron and Monica Deza (2017). “The Effect of Parental Education on Children’s Drug and Alcohol Use”. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings (Accepted, October 30, 2017)
• Deza, Monica and Daniel Litwok (2016). “Do Nighttime Driving Restrictions Reduce Criminal Participation Among Teenagers? Evidence from the Graduated Driver Licensing”. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 35(2) , Accepted October 30, 2015 Leading article
• Deza, Monica (2015), “The Effects of Alcohol on the Consumption of Hard Drugs: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth”, 1997. Health Economics 24(4). Accepted November 26, 2013.
• Deza, Monica (2015) “Is There a Stepping-Stone Effect in Drug Use? Separating State-Dependence from Unobserved Heterogeneity Within and Between Illicit Drugs”. Journal of Econometrics 184(1). (Accepted August 27, 2014)
• Dave, Dhaval, Monica Deza and Brady Horn (2020) “The Effect of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Crime”. NBER WP 24975. Southern Economic Journal (Accepted September 28, 2020)