Miguel Urquiola
@m_urquiola
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Economist, Columbia University. Economics applied to education. Book: https://t.co/Rp3522hzzG…
New York, NY
Joined August 2011
RT @Austan_Goolsbee: Am really loving this book on the history and economics of competition between research universities by @m_urquiola. I….
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Markets, Minds, and Money: Why America Leads the World in University Research
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RT @lugaricano: 1/@EpochAIResearch doubles down on preiction AI will drive 20%+ annual GDP growth. Economists remain skeptical. This is the….
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RT @sanz_ismael: 📊 ¿Cómo afecta el tracking escolar a la percepción de los estudiantes?.📌 Los alumnos en clases de alto rendimiento tienen….
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RT @andres_bafer: 🚨📢 Just one week left to submit to the 3rd Workshop on Economics of Education, Valle Nevado, 🇨🇱. Fantastic papers and sk….
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RT @cristobalotero: 📢 Call for Applications: Tinker Visiting Professorship 2026-27 at Columbia. We invite scholars, journalists, artists &….
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RT @RDMetcalfe: It’s an extremely tough year for candidates on the economics job market. For those of you who want to carry on doing academ….
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RT @palaashbhargava: Posting a little late but new blogpost from World Bank Development Impact on my job market paper. Peer matching inte….
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RT @Econ_Sandy: How do we form networks in school? Trying to pair socially isolated kids with popular kids in school can actually backfire….
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Hello! I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Economics at Columbia University. I am a development and labour economist studying topics in education and social networks. My secondary research...
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RT @GAP_NU_: #NEUDC2024 Session: Social Networks; presented by Palaash Bhargava, Columbia University presents about how assigning deskmates….
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RT @columbia_econ: Do socially isolated students benefit more from pairing with each other than with popular peers? In a 2-tiered RCT with….
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RT @asymmetricinfo: I actually think this is a deep question. When you ask people if they would like to go back to the 1970s, they don't im….
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RT @kevin_stange: I always thought the 1-word paper title was peak academic power move, but a 25 word abstract is up there! .
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RT @albertocavallo: 3/ Key Finding 1: Total markups faced by consumers (retail prices relative to production costs) were stable during the….
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RT @Freakonomics: We think of them as intellectual enclaves and the surest route to a better life. But U.S. colleges also operate like firm….
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What Exactly Is College For? (Update) - Freakonomics
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Awesome economics of education conference @ Valle Nevado Chile. Organized by Andres Barrios @andres_bafer. Featured a policy panel launching the Human Development Lab @hdl_uandes @uandes. Great papers, awesome skiing. Come next year! @ChrisANeilson @benconomics @josefaaguirre
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RT @Nicolas_Ajz: La planificación que hicieron los venezolanos antes de la elección (sabiendo que se las iban a querer robar) para mostrar….
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RT @itaisher: What I most value about tenure personally is that I can make a judgment on an intellectual basis of what is the most valuable….
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RT @cblatts: @KhoaVuUmn David Card used to sit in the front row and, in the middle of the seminar, lay his forehead on the table in front o….
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RT @GerardoMunck: The official results of the election in Venezuela have a clear sign that someone worked backwards from a desired percenta….
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"2U closed Wednesday with a market value of about $11.5 million, down from more than $5 billion in 2018. It went public a decade ago and hasn’t posted an annual profit since then.". via @WSJ.
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The company, which had a valuation of more than $5 billion in 2018, is being taken private in a deal that will wipe out more than half of its $945 million debt.
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