[2] Lopez has authored and co-authored numerous reports on the attitudes and opinions of Hispanics,[3] education,[4] migration and immigration,[5] identity,[6] and civic engagement and voter participation.
[7][8] Lopez also coordinates the Center's National Survey of Latinos.
Lopez is also a founding member and former president of the American Society of Hispanic Economists[10] as well as a former member of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession.
[12] He was born in a Mexican American family based in California for more than a century.
[13] He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. degree in economics in 1996 from Princeton University, where his thesis advisors included David Card.