Francisca Antman is Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado Boulder, Associate Dean of Faculty Success in the College of Arts and Sciences, faculty affiliate in the Population Program at the CU Population Center, and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).  She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 2007, M.A. from Stanford in 2005, and B.A. 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.  Her work has appeared in many top academic journals including the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Journal of Development Economics, and the Journal of Human Resources, and her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

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).  From 2021-24 she was 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.  In 2022, she was elected to the office of President-Elect of the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE); she served as ASHE President-Elect in 2023 and will serve as President of ASHE in 2024 and ASHE Past-President in 2025.  She was on leave at the University of Carlos III (Madrid, Spain) during the 2022-23 academic year.

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