Miguel Urquiola
Professor of International and Public Affairs and of Economics; Chair Department of Economics
Personal Details
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 and chair of the Department of Economics, 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
Research And Publications
In The Media
Verhoogen, an associate professor at SIPA and in Columbia’s Department of Economics, will be responsible for faculty recruitment and faculty development.
The honor, which recognizes young scholars for “distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field,” brings $50,000 in research support.
Each year SIPA faculty members publish scholarly articles and new books on a wide range of subjects.
SIPA will expand its role as a key global hub for research and consultation on policy thanks to a $1 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Professor Miguel Urquiola will serve in the position for the 2013-14 academic year.