Miguel Urquiola

Focus areas: Economics of education, competition between schools and universities, formation of reputations of quality in schools and universities, selection of educational providers by parents and students and the consequences of such choices on sorting and labor market outcomes

Miguel Urquiola is Professor of Economics and of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is also a member of the faculty of the School of International and Public Affairs, and of the Columbia Committee on the Economics of Education.

Outside Columbia, Urquiola is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and has held prior appointments at Cornell University’s Economics Department, the World Bank’s research department, the Bolivian Catholic University, and the Bolivian government. He is on the editorial board of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and was previously co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources.

His research is on the Economics of Education, with a focus on understanding how schools and universities compete, and how they form reputations for quality. It covers how students select educational providers, and the consequences such choices have on academic performance and labor market outcomes.

Education

• PhD in Economics, University of California, Berkeley
• BA, Swarthmore College

Affiliations

• Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
• Co-editor, Journal of Human Resources

Honors and Awards

• Tenth anniversary meetings of the Impact Evaluation Network, Keynote address, 2017
• 5th Congress of Colombian Economics, Universidad de los Andes, Featured speaker, 2016
• Korea Development Institute Conference on Education, Featured speaker, 2016
• Research Institute for Development, Growth, and Economics, Keynote address, 2016