Brian Cadena

Affiliations
- Associate Professor, , ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ
 - Associate Editor,
 - Research Fellow,
 - National Fellow,
 - Faculty Affiliate,
 - Faculty Affiliate,
 - Affiliated Professor,
 
Research Areas
- Immigration
 - Human Capital Investment
 - Behavioral Economics
 - Program Evaluation
 - Active Labor Market Programs
 
Curriculum Vitae
Working Papers
- Taking a Chance on Workers: Evidence on the Effects and Mechanisms of Subsidized Employment from an RCT (with  and ), May 2024, revisions requested at American Economic Review
- Prior version available as
 
 - Supported Work Leads to Lasting Labor Market Success Among TANF Recipients (with and ), June 2025, under review
 
Publications
- The International Transmission of Local Economic Shocks Through Migrant Networks (with  and ),Ìý 145, November 2023
- Prior version released as
 - Media coverage: Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine
 
 - Performance Pay, Productivity, and Strategic Opt-Out: Evidence from a Community Health Center (with )  206, February 2022.
- Prior version released as
 
 - Investment Over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice (with  and ), 39(4), October 2021.
- Prior version released as
 - Press Coverage: , , , , , , ,
 
 - (with and ) 55(3) pp. 1119–1145, June 2018
 - The Labor Market Consequences of Impatience, 
- Commentary summarizing implications:
 - Updated version (adds as co-author),
 
 -  (with ), , 8(1), pp. 257–90, January 2016.
- Press Coverage:, , , , , ,
 - Summaries:, ,
 
 - Human Capital and the Lifetime Costs of Impatience, (with ) , 7(3), pp. 126–153, August 2015.
 - The Labor Market Integration and Impacts of U.S. Immigrants (with and ), in , Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller eds., Volume 1B, pp. 1197–1259, Elsevier, 2015.
 - Recent Immigrants as Labor Market Arbitrageurs: Evidence from the Minimum Wage,80, pp.1–12, March 2014
 - Native Competition and Low-Skilled Immigrant Inflows, 48(4) pp. 910–944, Fall 2013
 - Can Self-Control Explain Avoiding Free Money: Evidence from Interest-Free Student Loans (with ) 95(4), pp.1117–1129 October 2013
 - The Dynamics of Food Stamp Receipt after Welfare Reform among Current and Former Welfare Recipients (with Sheldon Danziger and Kristin Seefeldt) in , D. Joliffe and J. Ziliak, eds., pp.103–133, Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2008.
 - Measuring State Welfare Policy Changes: Why Don't They Explain Caseload and Employment Outcomes? (with Sheldon Danziger and Kristin Seefeldt) , 87(4), pp. 808–817, December 2006
 
Work In Progress
- An Impact Evaluation of the NPower Tech Fundamentals Program (with and )
 - Migrant Networks and the Labor Market Impact of Mexican Migration to the US (with , , and )
 
Resting Papers
- (2006), (with Andreas Pape)
 
Teaching
Student Meetings:
Awards
- 2015-2016 Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence Award in Teaching and Pedagogy, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ
 - 2011-2012 Stanford Calderwood Faculty Teaching Award, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ Department of Economics
 
Courses Taught
- ECON 4848 Applied Econometrics
 - ECON 8686 Labor Economics 2
 - ECON 8848 Applied Microeconometrics
 - ECON 4309 Economics Honors Seminar I
 
Latest Update
June 2025