United States and Mexico: Ties That Bind, Issues That Divide
This binational reference for U.S. and Mexican policymakers presents the interrelated issues of Mexican immigration to the United States and Mexico's economic and social development.
Howard J. Shatz
Senior Economist, RAND; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
Expertise
Howard J. Shatz is a senior economist at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. He specializes in international economics, international development, and economics and national security. His RAND research has included international economic competition, including U.S.-China competition and the U.S. role in the global economic order; Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction and economic issues related to Russia’s war on Ukraine; economic measures for national security; the U.S. and allied defense industrial bases; great power competition in the Middle East; the finances and management of the Islamic State and its predecessors; and socio-economic policy projects in China, Israel, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Mongolia, and Saudi Arabia.
From 2007 to 2008, he was on leave from RAND, serving as a senior economist at the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers. Shatz has written journal articles, book chapters, and policy reports on trade and labor markets, exchange rates and economic performance, the geography of international investment, services trade, and trade barriers and low-income countries. Before joining RAND, he was a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, where he focused on California and the global economy. Shatz has held research fellowships at the Brookings Institution and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and has worked as a consultant to the World Bank and on advisory projects for countries in Latin America, Africa, and South Asia. He holds a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University.
Education
Ph.D. in public policy, Harvard University; M.I.A. in international policy analysis and management, Middle East studies, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Post-graduate study in Middle East studies, Tel Aviv University; A.B. in history, Brown University
Selected Work
- Howard J. Shatz, Marco Hafner, Naoko Aoki, Peter Dortmans, Timothy R. Heath, Fiona Quimbre, Economic Deterrence in a China Contingency, RAND (RRA-4022-1), 2025
- Howard J. Shatz and Daniel Egel, editors; Nadia Almasalkhi, Daniel Egel, Aaron B. Frank, C. Ben Gibson, Timothy R. Heath, Khrystyna Holynska, King Mallory, Steven W. Popper, Howard J. Shatz, Alexandra Stark, Tobias Sytsma, Noosha Uddin, Jessie Wang, U.S.-China Economic Competition: Gains and Risks in a Complex Economic and Geopolitical Relationship, RAND (RRA-1947-1), 2025
- Shatz, Howard J., Gabrielle Tarini, Charles P. Ries, and James Dobbins, Reconstructing Ukraine: Creating a Freer, More Prosperous, and Secure Future, RAND Corporation (RR-A2200-1), 2023
- Howard J. Shatz, Economic Competition in the 21st Century, RAND Corporation (RR-4188), 2020
- Johnston, Patrick B., Mona Alami, Colin P. Clarke, and Howard J. Shatz, Return and Expand? The Finances and Prospects of the Islamic State After the Caliphate, RAND Corporation (RR-3046), 2019
- Howard J. Shatz, Louay Constant, Francisco Perez-Arce, Eric Robinson, Robin Beckman, Haijing Huang, Peter Glick, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Improving the Mongolian Labor Market and Enhancing Opportunities for Youth, RAND Corporation (RR-1092), 2015
- Gustavo Bobonis, Howard J. Shatz, "Agglomeration, Adjustment, and State Policies in the Location of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States," The Review of Economics and Statistics, 89(1), 2007
- Orley Ashenfelter, Stephen Ciccarella, Howard J. Shatz, "French Wine and the U.S. Boycott of 2003: Does Politics Really Affect Commerce?" Journal of Wine Economics, 2(1), 2007
Authored by Howard J. Shatz
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