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Miguel Urquiola
Occupation(s)Economist and academic
Academic background
EducationB.A., Economics and Political Science
Ph.D., Economics
Alma materSwarthmore College, Philadelphia
University of California, Berkeley
Academic work
InstitutionsColumbia University

Miguel Urquiola is an American economist and academic. He is the dean of Social Science and professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University.[1]

Urquiola's research is focused in development economics, public economics, and health and education. He is the author of Markets, Minds, and Money: Why America Leads the World in University Research, a book exploring the dynamics of educational economics.[2]

Urquiola is a fellow of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development.[3] and was a co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources.[4]

Education

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Urquiola obtained a B.A. in Economics and Political Science in 1992 from Swarthmore College. Later in 2000, he obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.[5]

Career

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Urquiola started his academic career as an assistant professor at the Bolivian Catholic University in 1998 and from 1999 to 2000, was appointed there as an associate professor. He then joined Cornell University as an assistant professor of Economics, where he remained from 2001 to 2003. He has worked at Columbia University, first as an assistant professor from 2003 to 2009, and then as an associate Professor from 2009 to 2014. Since 2014, he has been serving as a professor.[4] In 2019, Urquiola became chair of the Department of Economics, and in 2022, was appointed the dean of Social Sciences.[5]

From 2007 to 2011, Urquiola was a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research before being appointed as a research associate in 2011.[6][5]

Research

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Urquiola has conducted research on the challenges in establishing clear input-output relationships in education. His studies on class size and Latin American education policies have highlighted both methodological difficulties and the importance of rigorous designs to identify causal effects on student achievement.[7][8] In related research, he assessed how Chile's nationwide school voucher program impacted educational outcomes and found that the availability of unrestricted choice led to increased sorting, as higher-performing public school students moved to private schools. However, the study found no evidence that choice improved average educational outcomes.[9][10] Furthermore, he explored how the Chilean government's use of school rankings for resource allocation influenced the effectiveness of educational programs, such as the P-900 initiative, and how school-level sampling variation in test scores complicated the evaluation of such interventions.[11]

Urquiola examined school choice in the U.S. and found that while school competition improved efficiency in some cases, the ability of schools to select students led to socioeconomic stratification, altered peer group composition, and potentially hindered skill development.[12] His research also investigated if attending better quality school improved student outcomes and found that being enrolled in better quality schools led to improved academic performance and significant behavioral responses from teachers, students, and parents.[13]

Urquiola wrote Markets, Minds, and Money: Why America Leads the World in University Research in 2020, in which he argued that America leads the world in university research because of its free-market model of higher education instead of high student test scores. Michael Andrews in a Journal of Economic Literature review and J. E. R. Staddon writing for James G. Martin Center agreed with Urquiola's central argument. Andrews wrote that "Urquiola does a convincing job arguing that the US higher education's free market orientation has allowed it to fund the world's best system of research, and he illustrates this argument with fascinating anecdotes from history" and Staddon wrote that Urquiola "makes sense of a complex issue". However, Andrews criticized the book's narrow focus, especially the omission of "discussion of America's non-elite public universities." Staddon, on the other hand, disagreed with Urquiola's assumption that "grant-supported research is a net cost", calling it net beneficial for the institutions[14][15]

Awards and honors

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Bibliography

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Books

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  • Markets, Minds, and Money: Why America Leads the World in University Research (2020) ISBN 9780674244238

Selected articles

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  • Urquiola, Miguel (1 February 2006). "Identifying Class Size Effects in Developing Countries: Evidence from Rural Bolivia". The Review of Economics and Statistics. 88 (1): 171–177. doi:10.1162/rest.2006.88.1.171. ISSN 0034-6535.
  • Chay, Kenneth Y.; McEwan, Patrick J.; Urquiola, Miguel (September 2005). "The Central Role of Noise in Evaluating Interventions That Use Test Scores to Rank Schools" (PDF). American Economic Review. 95 (4): 1237–1258. doi:10.1257/0002828054825529. ISSN 0002-8282.
  • Hsieh, Chang-Tai; Urquiola, Miguel (1 September 2006). "The effects of generalized school choice on achievement and stratification: Evidence from Chile's voucher program". Journal of Public Economics. 90 (8): 1477–1503. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2005.11.002. ISSN 0047-2727.
  • Pop-Eleches, Cristian; Urquiola, Miguel (June 2013). "Going to a Better School: Effects and Behavioral Responses". American Economic Review. 103 (4): 1289–1324. doi:10.1257/aer.103.4.1289. ISSN 0002-8282.
  • Epple, Dennis; Romano, Richard E.; Urquiola, Miguel (June 2017). "School Vouchers: A Survey of the Economics Literature" (PDF). Journal of Economic Literature. 55 (2): 441–492. doi:10.1257/jel.20150679. ISSN 0022-0515.

References

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  1. ^ "Miguel Urquiola". Columbia University. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  2. ^ Urquiola S., Miguel (2020). Markets, minds, and money: why America leads the world in university research. Cambridge (Mass.) London: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674244238.
  3. ^ "Who are the BREAD Fellows?". Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development. 11 March 2025. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  4. ^ a b "Miguel Urquiola". Center for Economic and Policy Research. 10 August 2007. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  5. ^ a b c "Miguel Urquiola" (PDF). Columbia University. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  6. ^ "Miguel Urquiola". NBER. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  7. ^ Urquiola, Miguel (1 February 2006). "Identifying Class Size Effects in Developing Countries: Evidence from Rural Bolivia". The Review of Economics and Statistics. 88 (1): 171–177. doi:10.1162/rest.2006.88.1.171. ISSN 0034-6535 – via MIT Press Direct.
  8. ^ Mizala, Alejandra; Romaguera, Pilar; Urquiola, Miguel; Arias, Omar (2002). "Equity and Educational Performance [with Comments]". Economía. 2 (2): 219–273. doi:10.1353/eco.2002.0009. ISSN 1529-7470. JSTOR 20065425 – via Jstor.
  9. ^ Hsieh, Chang-Tai; Urquiola, Miguel (1 September 2006). "The effects of generalized school choice on achievement and stratification: Evidence from Chile's voucher program". Journal of Public Economics. 90 (8): 1477–1503. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2005.11.002. ISSN 0047-2727 – via ScienceDirect.
  10. ^ Smith, Noah (19 February 2016). "School-choice lotteries are failing". The Ann Arbor News. p. 6.
  11. ^ Chay, Kenneth Y.; McEwan, Patrick J.; Urquiola, Miguel (September 2005). "The Central Role of Noise in Evaluating Interventions That Use Test Scores to Rank Schools". American Economic Review. 95 (4): 1237–1258. doi:10.1257/0002828054825529. ISSN 0002-8282.
  12. ^ Urquiola, Miguel (September 2005). "Does School Choice Lead to Sorting? Evidence from Tiebout Variation". American Economic Review. 95 (4): 1310–1326. doi:10.1257/0002828054825484. ISSN 0002-8282.
  13. ^ Pop-Eleches, Cristian; Urquiola, Miguel (June 2013). "Going to a Better School: Effects and Behavioral Responses". American Economic Review. 103 (4): 1289–1324. doi:10.1257/aer.103.4.1289. ISSN 0002-8282 – via American Economic Association.
  14. ^ "Why Do American Universities Lead the World in Scientific Research?". James G. Martin Center. 24 June 2020. Retrieved May 15, 2025.
  15. ^ Andrews, Michael (2021). "Review of Markets, Minds, and Money: Why America Leads the World in University Research". Journal of Economic Literature. 59 (1): 294–296. ISSN 0022-0515. JSTOR 27030545.
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