Author: Anita Alves Pena

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“Harvest Health Initiative”: Closing Colorado’s Farmworker Healthcare Gap

  • July 2026
Colorado’s 2021 Agricultural Labor Rights and Responsibilities Act (ALRRA) guarantees farmworkers access to healthcare providers but does not specify funding. In Colorado, 63% of primary care shortage areas are rural (HRSA, 2025) and spending on emergency room visits translates into an estimated $800 million a year in avoidable costs (CIVHC, 2015).…
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Evaluating Healthcare Access for Migrant Agricultural Workers

  • July 2025
Occupational illness and injury rates are high in the U.S. agricultural sector. Spatial correlations are low between migrant health centers and population concentrations of H-2A workers. Furthermore, migrant health centers are scarce in areas with high environmental risks, suggesting that many H-2A workers are underserved. Overview The H-2A visa allows agricultural employers, in the face of a labor shortage, to bring foreign workers on a temporary or seasonal basis.…
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Economic and Community Contribution Analysis of the Forest Product Industry in Colorado

  • November 2024
The forest product industry in Colorado is innovative and provides various economic and ecological benefits. The contribution of the forest product industry in terms of output and value added is over $6,088M (0.59% of total state output) and over $2,843M (0.49% of state GDP) respectively. The estimated economic impact of 2024 USDA Wood Innovation Program Grants to the state is 4.71 times larger than the total amount of grants awarded.…
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Wage Disparities Among Mexican Indigenous Farmworkers in the U.S. Agricultural Sector

  • June 2024
There is a wage gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Mexican-born farmworkers with indigenous workers taking home 5.25% less in pay. Lower education levels, fewer years of farmwork experience, higher proportions of undocumented status, and lower English proficiency are among the factors contributing to the wage gap.…
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Coloradans’ Views on Farm Labor: A Closer Look at the 2022 Public Perceptions and Attitudes about Colorado Agriculture Survey

  • January 2024
Approximately 98% of Coloradans surveyed agreed that Colorado’s food and ag industry is important to the state’s future economic development. Over 75% feel that it is very or somewhat important that farm/ranch labor is treated fairly in terms of pay and working conditions when making food purchasing decisions.…
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Exploring Economic Empowerment and Marginalization using Data from Developing Countries

  • October 2021
• The Poverty Action Center (PAC@REDI) is engaged in several ongoing data analyses to answer questions at the forefront of applied economics globally. • Our Nepal team is examining links between migration and social mobility through the lens of caste/ethnicity and wealth accumulation using micro-data from the World Bank.…
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Regional Field Sanitation Risk in the U.S. Agricultural Sector

  • December 2017
Representative data suggests that risk associated with lack of field sanitation is relatively low on U.S. farms Data for the agricultural region that includes Colorado suggests that this region was a first mover in terms of the availability of toilets for farmworkers, but more closely followed national trends of increased access to hand wash and drinking water over time Basic field sanitation definitions in available data are limited, however, and may not reflect the true extent of risk Unideal sanitation access may represent a health risk exposure category of interest on the farm.…
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Gender, Health, and Urban-Rural Influences on School Attendance in Nepal

  • April 2018
The Poverty Action Center (PAC@REDI) aims to utilize interdisciplinary academic tools and mixed-methods research approaches to help guide poverty action locally and globally. We are using original survey design and econometric data analysis to answer questions at the intersection of poverty, access to education, and student achievement.…
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Relationships between Gender, School Attendance and Student Achievement in Nepal

  • June 2019
We examine positive links between school attendance and student achievement in the context of secondary schools in Nepal via original data collection matched to administrative records. We pay attention to gender since previous work is suggestive of menstruation affecting school attendance in this context. We also examine other non- attendance determinants of achievement, including individual and family- related characteristics, for comparison.…
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Local Labor Market Inequality and Mass Incarceration

  • October 2019
Using local-level data on incarceration rates by race, we explore the relationship between income inequality, poverty, and incarceration at the commuting zone level from 1950 to the present. We find that labor markets with higher levels of inequality experienced larger increases in overall incarceration, and that relative rates of poverty play a key role in explaining the differential effects of mass incarceration across race.…
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