Miguel Urquiola
Affiliation
- Faculty Fellow, School of International and Public Affairs
Department of Economics
Research
Miguel Urquiola is Assistant Professor of International & Public Affairs and Economics. His research focuses on educational issues in developing countries and the U.S., covering topics like the effects of voucher financing and accountability schemes. Prior to moving to Columbia, he was an assistant professor of Economics at Cornell, and in the past also worked for the World Bank research department, the Bolivian government, and the Bolivian Catholic University's MBA and public policy programs.
He received a B.A. from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley
Selected Work
- "Identifying class size effects in developing countries: Evidence from rural schools in Bolivia." Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
- "Does school choice lead to sorting? Evidence from Tiebout variation." American Economic Review, September, 2005, 95(4), 1310-1326.
- "The central role of noise in evaluating interventions that use test scores to rank schools." with Ken Chay and Patrick McEwan, American Economic Review, September, 2005, 95(4), 1237-1258.
