Mauricio Romero

Description

Mauricio Romero is an associate professor of economics at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He earned a B.A. in economics (summa cum laude) and a B.A. in mathematics (cum laude) from Universidad de los Andes, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego. Mauricio has affiliations at the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP), the Center for Global Development (CGD), The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and The Institute for Labor Economics (IZA). His work focuses on the bottlenecks that impede high-quality government provision of education, health care, and environmental protection. In conjunction with his empirical research agenda, he works on methodological issues in applied econometrics and statistics. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Development Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics.