Eric Verhoogen
Vice Dean, School of International and Public Affairs; Professor of International and Public Affairs and of Economics; Co-Director, Center for Development Economics and Policy at School of International and Public Affairs
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development at Brookings Institution
Schools
- Brookings Institution
- School of International and Public Affairs
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Biography
School of International and Public Affairs
Focus areas: Development economics, international trade, labor economics
Eric Verhoogen is Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics. His main research area is industrial development–applied microeconomic research on firms in developing countries. This area overlaps with the fields of development economics, international trade, labor economics, and industrial organization. A recurrent theme in his work is the process of quality upgrading in the manufacturing sectors of developing countries–its causes, consequences, and broader implications.
Education
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- MA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- BA, Harvard College
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Brookings Institution
Eric Verhoogen is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a professor in the Department of Economics and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
His main research area is industrial development—firms, innovation, productivity, trade, industrial policy, and labor markets in developing countries. A number of his papers have been concerned with the process of quality upgrading—why and how firms raise quality when they sell to richer countries, and the consequences for labor and other input markets. Currently he is working on productivity estimation and the determinants of technology adoption, among other topics.
Verhoogen is a former co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics and is currently serving as a member of the board of the Bureau for Research in the Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), as a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), as a research program director for the International Growth Centre (IGC), and as co-director of the Center for Development Economics and Policy at Columbia.
He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, a master's degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a bachelor's degree from Harvard.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley (2004)
- M.A. in Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2001)
- A.B. in History and Science, Harvard College, (1991)
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