Jorge De La Roca

Expertise

Urban economics, labor economics, economic geography, urban migration

Biographical sketch

Jorge De la Roca is an Assistant Professor at the USC Sol Price School of Public of Policy. His research interests include urban economics, labor economics and economic geography. His research focuses on understanding the benefits of working in big cities and studying urban migration across cities of different sizes, where he has published articles in the Review of Economic Studies and the Journal of Urban Economics. He has also studied the consequences of racial segregation on minorities in the United States, co-authoring an article on the subject in Regional Science and Urban Economics. He has also published on wage cyclicality in SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association.

Dr. De la Roca earned his doctorate and master’s in Economics at CEMFI in Spain and his Bachelor Degree at Universidad del Pacífico in Peru. Before joining the Price School, he was a research fellow at New York University’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. He has also worked at Harvard University’s Center for International Development, the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Group for the Analysis of Development in Lima, Peru.

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