Professor Climent Quintana-Domeque

Climent Quintana-Domeque (Barcelona, 1980) is Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter, a Research Fellow at IZA (Bonn), and a network member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Family Inequality working group (Chicago). Climent received his Llicenciatura from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ranked first in the class of 2002) and completed his PhD in Economics at Princeton University in 2008 under the supervision of Alan Krueger. He has taught at the Universitat d'Alacant, where he was Assistant Professor and received his first tenure in 2012, and at the University of Oxford, where he was both Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at St Edmund Hall and achieved his second tenure in 2017.

Climent is an applied microeconomist with a broad range of research interests, including 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 in top field journals like Demography and the Journal of Health Economics.

Together with Marco Gonzalez-Navarro (Berkeley), he co-authored "the world's first study of the true impact of public road building on property values" (Andrew Leigh, 2018, in Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World, p. 110).

Climent has served as Associate Editor of Economics and Human Biology and on the editorial board of Oxford Economic Papers, and has been the invited guest editor for the 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, he teaches BEE3072 “Econometrics: Cause and Effect,” has been Subject Lead of Applied Microeconomics since 2023, and supervises several postgraduate students. In 2024, he was awarded the University of Exeter Supervisor of the Year Award.