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 , Professor of Economics and International Affairs, is the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at SIPA. His research is on the Economics of Education, with a focus on understanding competition between schools and universities. This includes work on how parents and students select educational providers, and what consequences such choice has on performance.

He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and serves as co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources. He held prior appointments at the Russell Sage Foundation, Cornell University’s economics department, the World Bank’s research department, the Bolivian government, and the Bolivian Catholic University.

He received a BA and a PhD in Economics from Swarthmore College and the University of California at Berkeley, respectively.

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 & 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

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.