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CONTACT INFORMATION

• Department of Economics
  University of Miami
  P.O. Box 248126
  Coral Gables, FL 33124-6550
  
• Ph: (305) 284-1626
  
• Email:omitnik@miami.edu

• Marital Status: Married, two children
• Citizenship: Argentina (US permanent resident)
• Languages: English, Spanish

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Economics, UCLA, 2004
• M.A., Economics, UCLA, 2001
• M.A., Economics, Georgetown University (coursework at ILADES, Chile), 1997
• B.A., Economics, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, 1994

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

• Labor Economics
• Applied Econometrics
• Applied Microeconomics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor, Economics Department, University of Miami, 2004 - present
• Research Affiliate, IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn), 2004 - present
• Research Assistant, UCLA, 1999 - 2004
• Associate Researcher, Master of Arts in Economics Program, ILADES-Georgetown University, Chile, 1997 - 1998
• Instructor, Master of Arts in Economics Program, ILADES - Georgetown University, Chile, 1998
• Instructor, School of Business Administration, Universidad Alonso de Ovalle, Chile, 1996 - 1998
• Teaching Assistant, Master of Arts in Economics Program, ILADES- Georgetown University, Chile, 1996 - 1997
• Researcher, Institute of Economic Studies on the Argentine and Latin American Situation (IERAL), Fundación Mediterránea, Argentina, 1994 - 1995
• Research Assistant, Institute of Economic Studies on the Argentine and Latin American Situation (IERAL), Fundación Mediterránea, Argentina, 1991 - 1994
• Research Assistant, Institute of Statistics and Demography, School of Economic Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, 1992 - 1995

AWARDS

• James W. Mclamore Summer Award, University of Miami, 2005 and 2007
• Dissertation Fellowship, UC Institute for Labor and Employment, 2002-2003
• Pauley Foundation Fellowship, UCLA, 2001-2002 and 1998-1999
• Konrad Adenauer Foundation Fellowship, ILADES - Georgetown University, Chile, 1995-1997
• First Prize, Newspaper ”El Cronista” National Competition of Undergraduate Economics Papers, for the paper "An Analysis of Unemployment in Greater Buenos Aires", 1994

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• IRP Summer Research Workshop, Madison, 2007
• North American Econometric Society Summer Meeting, Duke University, 2007
• Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, Charleston, 2006
• IFAU/IZA Conference on the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies, Uppsala, 2006
• North American Econometric Society Summer Meeting, University of Minnesota, 2006
• Workshop on Education and Training, organized by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim (Germany), 2005
• North American Econometric Society Summer Meeting, Northwestern University, 2003
• Latin American and Caribbean Economic Society 8th Annual Meeting, Mexico, 2003

SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

• Universidad Carlos III (Spain), 2005
• Florida International University, 2004
• University of Miami, 2004
• University of Chicago (Harris School), 2004
• Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2004
• IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor (Germany), 2004
• El Colegio de Mexico (Mexico), 2004
• CIDE (Mexico), 2004
• UCLA, 2003

REFEREE

• Econometrics Journal
• Journal of Human Resources
• Policy Reform

• American Economic Association
• Econometric Society
• Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA)

RECENT RESEARCH PAPERS

• "Nonparametric Tests for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity" (with Richard Crump, V. Joseph Hotz and Guido Imbens), NBER WP # t0324, May 2006, IZA, Bonn DP #2091, April 2006 (forthcoming The Review of Economics and Statistics)
• "Intergenerational transmission of welfare dependency: The effects of length of exposure", University of Miami, June 2007
• "Moving the Goalposts: Addressing Limited Overlap in Estimation of Average Treatment Effects by Changing the Estimand" (with Richard Crump, V. Joseph Hotz and Guido Imbens), NBER WP # t0330; IZA, Bonn DP #2347, October 2006
• "Differential Effects of Welfare-to-Work Programs: Identification with Unknown Treatment Status", University of Miami, December 2005
• "How do Training Programs Assign Participants to Training? Characterizing the Optimal Assignment Rules of Government Agencies for Welfare-to-Work Programs in California", University of Miami, December 2005

WORK IN PROGRESS

• "Comparing estimators for average treatment effects with many covariates" (with V. Joseph Hotz and Guido Imbens)
• "An evaluation of non-experimental estimators for multiple treatments" (with Carlos Flores)
• "The unintended consequences of the EITC: The effects on obesity of increased labor force participation" (with Pedro Gomis-Porqueras and Adrian Peralta-Alva)
• "Executive compensation in financially distressed firms" (with Qiang Kang)
• "Pork-barrel spending and congressional elections in the U.S." (with Luca Bossi)

PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH PAPERS IN SPANISH

• "Education and Economic Growth of Provinces of Argentina", Revista de Análisis Económico, Volume 14, No. 2, 1999
• "Lecture Notes in Income Distribution and Poverty", Lecture Notes Series D-8, Graduate Program in Economics ILADES - Georgetown University, Chile, March 1999
• "Education and Poverty: A Study of Greater Córdoba", Estudios, Year XIX, No. 79, IEERAL, Córdoba, October/December 1996
• "Poverty and Income Distribution: Dynamics and Special Features. Greater Buenos Aires, 1974-94" (with Silvia Montoya), Estudios, Year XVIII, No. 74, IEERAL, Córdoba, July/Sept 1995
• "Evolution of Poverty and Income Distribution in Argentina", (with Silvia Montoya), Novedades Económicas, Year 17, No. 172-173, IEERAL, Córdoba, April-May 1995
• "Accumulation of Human Capital: Determinant of Poverty?" (with Silvia Montoya), Proceedings XXIX Meeting Argentine Association of Political Economy, October 1994
• "Who Benefits from the Education System?" (with Silvia Montoya), Novedades Económicas, Year 16, No. 161, IEERAL, Córdoba, May 1994
• "Urban Poverty in Argentina: The Case of Greater Buenos Aires" (with Silvia Montoya), Estudios, Year XVI, No. 65, IEERAL, Córdoba, April/June 1993
• "Extent of Poverty in the Retirement Age" (with Silvia Montoya), Novedades Económicas, Year 14, No. 144, IEERAL, Córdoba, December 1992