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Adriana Hernández Castañeda

@adrianahernndezcasta

Economist and demographer at UC Davis who studied labor, migration, and gender and co-authored California's statewide civil-service vacancies study.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm open to remote roles in economic research, data analysis, and policy in the US and Mexico.

At University of California, Davis, I conducted doctoral research on labor markets, migration, and gender across the US and Mexico, combining survey microdata with spatial demography.

At UC Berkeley Labor Center, I co-authored Civil Service Vacancies in California: 2022–2023, a statewide study of public-sector vacancies with policy recommendations on recruitment and retention.

At Cornell University's Program on Applied Demographics, I produced demographic analysis supporting New York State's official population-estimates program. State agencies used that work, which also informed the US Census Bureau estimates review process.

My research on labor markets, migration, and gender inequality has also included peer-reviewed work on the changing sex composition of US immigrant communities. I work in Spanish and English and am building my research portfolio in the open.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Doctoral Researcher

University of California, Davis

Sep 2021 - Jul 2026 (4 years 10 months)

Doctoral research on labor markets, migration, and gender across the US and Mexico, combining survey microdata with spatial demography.

2025: Fulbright García Robles finalist · UC Davis Global Grad Grant · Hemispheric Institute on the Americas Summer Fellowship · selected participant, UW–Madison Institute for Research on Poverty graduate workshop.

Graduate Student Researcher

UC Berkeley Labor Center

Aug 2022 - Aug 2023 (1 year)

Co-authored "Civil Service Vacancies in California: 2022–2023" (Dec 2023), the Labor Center's statewide study of public-sector job vacancies across occupations, wage levels, and educational requirements, with policy recommendations on recruitment and retention.

Research Support Specialist

Cornell University

Jun 2018 - Jun 2021 (3 years)

Program on Applied Demographics. Produced demographic analysis supporting New York State's official population-estimates program, used by state agencies and in the US Census Bureau estimates review process.

• Authored policy memos "Headship Rates and Household Formation in New York State, 2012–2017" (2019) and "Effect of the Vintage 2018 Population Estimates Revisions" (2019
• Co-presented the Pa