Professor Climent Quintana-Domeque

Climent Quintana-Domeque (Barcelona, 1980) is a Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter, a Research Fellow at IZA (Bonn), and a member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Family Inequality network (Chicago). He graduated with a Llicenciatura in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where he ranked first in the class of 2002. In 2008, he completed his PhD in Economics at Princeton University under the supervision of Alan Krueger.

Climent has held academic positions at Universitat d'Alacant, where he became a tenured Assistant Professor in 2012, and at the University of Oxford, where he served as Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at St Edmund Hall, achieving tenure again in 2017.

An applied microeconomist, Climent’s research spans development, health, and household economics. His work has been published in leading generalist journals such as the Journal of Political Economy and the Review of Economics and Statistics, as well as top field journals including Demography and the Journal of Health Economics. Together with Marco Gonzalez-Navarro (Berkeley), Climent co-authored what Andrew Leigh (2018) described in Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World as “the world's first study of the true impact of public road building on property values” (p. 110).

Climent has held various editorial roles, including Associate Editor of Economics and Human Biology, editorial board member of Oxford Economic Papers, and guest editor for a special issue of the Review of Economics of the Household in honour of Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton. He is currently an editor of the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics and serves on the editorial board of Economics and Human Biology.

At the University of Exeter, Climent teaches BEE3072 “Econometrics: Cause and Effect,” has served as Subject Lead of Applied Microeconomics since 2023, and supervises several postgraduate students. In 2024, he was honoured with the University of Exeter Supervisor of the Year Award in recognition of his dedication to mentoring.