Miguel Urquiola

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.