Sergio Urzua

Sergio Urzua is a Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. He is also Director of the Lacea Labor Network; Research Director of The Research Institute for Development, Growth, and Economics (RIDGE); Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA); and International Research Fellow at Clapes-UC.

His research focuses on labor economics, especially the role of abilities, skills, and uncertainty as determinants of schooling decisions, labor market outcomes, social behavior, and inequality. In addition, his applied research analyzes selection models with unobserved heterogeneity and the impact evaluation of social programs in developing and developed countries. His work has been published in leading academic journals. Urzua teaches Labor Economics at the Ph.D. level and Policy and Program Evaluation at the undergraduate level. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Chile and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.