Ken Roberts Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Business holder of the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cullen Chair in Economics PhD, University of Wisconsin at Madison MBA, Wharton School-University of Pennsylvania BBA, The University of Texas at Austin Location: MBH 334 Phone: 512-863-1993 Economics and Business Home Page

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD Professor, 1996-present; Associate Professor, 1987-1995; Assistant Professor, 1980-1987   CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS Ford Foundation (Beijing) Research Grants, NEH Grant, Mundy Faculty Fellowship, Brown Scholar, Mellon Foundation Visiting Research Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays Grant, Foreign Area Fellowhip from Social Science Research Council, Population Council Fellowship   RESEARCH AREAS Population economics with a primary emphasis on migration in developing countries. Dr. Roberts' focus has shifted from Mexico to China which, with over 100 million farmers working in the cities, is experiencing the largest migration in human history   REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS "The Migration Experience of Young Women from Sichuan and Anhui," in On the Move: Women and Rural to Urban Migration in Contemporary China, Columbia University Press, 2003. "Fortune, Risk and Remittances: An Application of Options Theory to Participation in Village-Based Migration Networks," International Migration Review, 2003. "Female Labor Migrants to Shanghai: Temporary 'Floaters' or Settlers?" International Migration Review, 2002. "The Determinants of Occupational Choice of Labor Migrants to Shanghai," China Economic Review, 2001. "Rural Migrants in Urban China: Willing Workers, Invisible Residents," Asia Pacific Business Review, 2001. "China's 'Tidal Wave' of Migrant Labor: What Can We Learn from Mexican Undocumented Migration to the United States?" International Migration Review, 1997. "Technology Transfer in the Mexican Bajío: Seeds, Sorghum, and Socioeconomic Change," Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California at San Diego, 1986. "Agrarian Structure and Labor Mobility in Rural Mexico," Population and Development Review 1982.