Research Statement

I am an economist with wide research interests in macro, growth, development, international and labor economics. The common denominator of my research agenda is human capital.  In my published and ongoing work, I have examined college choices and the related financing and repayment decisions. I also have examined how human capital decisions and outcomes shape up the aggregate income of countries and its income distribution, as well as the occupation choices of individuals and households. I have also studied how human capital drives the structural transformation and the urban development of countries as well as the international reallocation of factors in the world economy.

Currently, I have a very active working agenda on various topics: (1) education opportunities, intergenerational mobility and the development path of countries; (2) technological changes and the dynamic implications for occupation choices, aggregate income,  and income distribution; (3) industrial revolutions and the emergence of global imbalances; and (4) optimal policies for developing countries for the attraction of foreign know-how.