Professor Climent Quintana-Domeque

Climent Quintana-Domeque (Barcelona, 1980) is a Catalan-British economist and Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter. He is a Research Fellow at IZA@LISER network (Luxembourg) and a member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Family Inequality network at the University of Chicago. He graduated with a Llicenciatura in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where he 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 held academic positions at Universitat d'Alacant, where he was granted tenure in 2012, and at the University of Oxford, where he served as Associate Professor of Economics and Tutorial Fellow at St Edmund Hall and received tenure in 2017 before joining Exeter.

An applied microeconomist, Climent’s research spans health, family and household economics, development, inequality, and, more recently, domestic abuse and violence against women and girls. His work has been published in leading journals including the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Health Economics, Demography, and the Economic Journal. Together with Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, he co-authored research described by Andrew Leigh in Randomistas (2018) as “the world's first study of the true impact of public road building on property values” (p. 110).

His research has also informed public policy in a number of areas, including infrastructure and mental health, and has more recently contributed to legislative change on non-fatal strangulation in Jersey and to policy discussions in Scotland.

Climent has held a range of editorial and professional service roles, including Associate Editor of Economics and Human Biology, editorial board member of Oxford Economic Papers, editor of the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and member of the Royal Economic Society Council.

At Exeter, he teaches “Econometrics: Cause and Effect”, has served as Subject Lead in Applied Microeconomics since 2023, and supervises postgraduate researchers. He has supervised doctoral students at Exeter, Oxford, and Alacant, and in 2024 received the University of Exeter’s Supervisor of the Year Award.