About
Michael is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Duke University, having moved from the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago in 2024. He earned his PhD in Economics from Stanford with a dissertation titled “Essays in Applied Microeconomics” — recipient of the Forman Family Fellowship for top first-year Stanford Economics PhD students. His research is in applied microeconomics — industrial organization, the economics of education, and public economics. He and Christopher are long-running coauthors, with Daniel Morales and Sebastián Otero, on the equilibrium effects of public-school provision in the Dominican Republic’s school construction program: Equilibrium Effects of Public Provision in Education Markets.
Background
- Industrial Organization
- Economics of Education
- Public Economics
- Empirical Methods
Education
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PhD, Economics
· Stanford University
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Career
- Associate Professor of Economics, Duke University, Department of Economics (2024–present)
- Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics (until 2024)
Joint work with Christopher
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The Competitive Effects of Improved Public Provision: Evidence from a Large School Expansion Program
2019