Carlos Fernando Avenancio-Leon - Equitable Growth

Competition
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how strong competition among U.S. businesses affects inequality and broad-based economic growth. More
- Topics:
- Anticompetitive Conduct
- Antitrust Enforcement
- Concentration
Families
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how unequal access to care, 21st century work-life policies, and education undermines stable, broad-based economic growth. More
- Topics:
- Childcare & Early Education
- Economic Wellbeing
- Health
- K-12
- Post-secondary Education
Inequality & Mobility
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how trends in economic inequality and mobility and changes in the economy have affected the concentration of wealth, income, and earnings, and how these distributional shifts have affected the promise of economic security and opportunity. More
- Topics:
- Economic Inequality
- Economic Mobility
- Economics of Place
- GDP 2.0
- Gender
- Income & Earnings Volatility
- Poverty
- Race & Ethnicity
Labor
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how inequalities in wages, bargaining power, and the evolving labor market affect workers’ economic security and opportunity as well as broad-based economic growth. More
- Topics:
- Bargaining Power
- Job Mobility
- Minimum Wage
- Monopsony
- Paid Leave
- Pay Equity
- Schedule Stability
- Unemployment Insurance
- Wage Stagnation
Tax & Macroeconomics
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how tax and macroeconomic policies can promote stable and broad-based economic growth. More
- Topics:
- Business Taxation
- Climate
- Credit & Debt
- Fiscal Policy
- Individual Taxation
- Monetary Policy
- Taxes, Inequality & Growth

Carlos Fernando Avenancio-León is an assistant professor of finance at the University of California San Diego. He is an economist whose work focuses on finance, labor economics, and group inequality. He received a Ph.D. in finance from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018 and a J.D. from the University of Puerto Rico in 2011.

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2018, The labor market effects of minority political empowerment: Evidence from the Voting Rights Act, $15,000

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Race & Ethnicity

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Strong unions push firms to reduce riskier debt, lowering risks of unemployment for U.S. workers

By Carlos Fernando Avenancio-Leon, Alessio Piccolo, Roberto Pinto,

September 27, 2023

September 27, 2023

Carlos Fernando Avenancio-Leon, Alessio Piccolo, Roberto Pinto,

Labor Inequality & Mobility

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TOPICS: Bargaining Power, Economic Inequality

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Resilience in Collective Bargaining

By Carlos Fernando Avenancio-Leon, Alessio Piccolo, Roberto Pinto,

September 27, 2023

September 27, 2023

Carlos Fernando Avenancio-Leon, Alessio Piccolo, Roberto Pinto,

Labor

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TOPICS: Bargaining Power

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Voting rights equal economic progress: The Voting Rights Act and U.S. economic inequality

By Abhay Aneja, Carlos Fernando Avenancio-Leon,

October 16, 2020

October 16, 2020

Abhay Aneja, Carlos Fernando Avenancio-Leon,

Inequality & Mobility Labor

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TOPICS: Economic Inequality, Economic Mobility, Pay Equity, Race & Ethnicity

working paper

The Effect of Political Power on Labor Market Inequality: Evidence from the 1965 Voting Rights Act

By Abhay Aneja, Carlos Fernando Avenancio-Leon,

October 16, 2020

October 16, 2020

Abhay Aneja, Carlos Fernando Avenancio-Leon,

Inequality & Mobility Labor

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TOPICS: Economic Inequality, Economic Mobility, Pay Equity, Race & Ethnicity

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Misvaluations in local property tax assessments cause the tax burden to fall more heavily on Black, Latinx homeowners

By Carlos Fernando Avenancio-Leon, Troup Howard,

June 10, 2020

June 10, 2020

Carlos Fernando Avenancio-Leon, Troup Howard,

Inequality & Mobility Tax & Macroeconomics

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TOPICS: Economic Inequality, Economic Mobility, Economics of Place, Individual Taxation, Poverty, Race & Ethnicity

working paper

The Assessment Gap: Racial Inequalities in Property Taxation

By Carlos Fernando Avenancio-Leon, Troup Howard,

June 10, 2020

June 10, 2020

Carlos Fernando Avenancio-Leon, Troup Howard,

Inequality & Mobility Tax & Macroeconomics

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TOPICS: Economic Inequality, Economic Mobility, Economics of Place, Individual Taxation, Poverty, Race & Ethnicity

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