Miguel Urquiola

Miguel Urquiola is an American economist and academic. He is vice provost for Academic Initiatives, dean of Social Science, and professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Urquiola's research is focused on the economics of education, development economics, and public economics. He is the author of ''Markets, Minds, and Money: Why America Leads the World in University Research'', a book exploring why the United States developed the leading research universities. Urquiola is a fellow of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development. and was a co-editor of the ''Journal of Human Resources''. Provided by Wikipedia