Overview

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 Economic Opportunity Family Inequality working group (Chicago). Climent received his Llicenciatura from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (first ranked in the class of 2002) and completed his PhD in Economics at Princeton University in 2008 under the supervision of Alan Krueger. Climent has taught at the Universitat d'Alacant, where he was Assistant Professor and got 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 got his second tenure in 2017.

Climent is an applied microeconomist interested in a broad range of fields, including development, health and household economics issues. His work has been published in top general journals, such as the Journal of Political Economy and the Review of Economics and Statistics, and top field journals, like Demography and the Journal of Health Economics. Together with Marco Gonzalez-Navarro (Berkeley) he is the co-author of "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 in the editorial board of Oxford Economics Papers, and has been the invited guest editor for the special issue of the Review of Economics of the Household in Honor of Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton. He is currently one of the editors of the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics and serves in the editorial board of Economics and Human Biology. 

Qualifications

PhD, Princeton University

Links

• Personal webpage

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Research

Research interests

• Development Economics
• Health Economics
• Family Economics

Research networks

• Fellow, GLO.
• Network Member, Family Inequality, HCEO Global Working Group.
• Research Fellow, IZA.

Research grants

• 2023 British Academy Small Grants
  The objective of this project is to develop an empirical framework to study identification in models of matching markets with outcomes. We apply our framework to study the interaction between the marriage market and the determinants of children’s health at birth. The goal of the exercise is to identify the preferences people have for partner attributes and their impact on the health of their future children. In our empirical application, we use a unique dataset of linked birth records across two generations from the state of Florida in the United States, between 1970 and 2014. In terms of policy, our study will help to assess the long-term effects of policies aimed at reducing disparities in early childhood. The long-term success of such policies will be mediated by the marriage market inasmuch partner choice is driven by preferences over child outcomes.

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Publications

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External Engagement and Impact

Awards and Honours

• Invited Guest Editor,  Review of Economics of the Household, Special Issue: In Honor of Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton: “Consumption, Poverty and Inequality in the Household”, March 2018, Issue 1, Pages 1-188.
• Invitation to 3ie's Expert Roster, 2016.

Editorial responsibilities

• Editor, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.
• Member of the Editorial Board, Economics and Human Biology.

External doctoral examining nationally and internationally

• LSE, Universitat de Barcelona, University of Bristol, University of Birmingham, University of Edinburgh, University of Oxford, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University of Warwick. 

External positions

• University of Bristol, PGT External Examiner, since 2021-22.
• University of Cambridge, Tripos Part 2A, since January 2024.

Invited lectures

• Keynote speaker at the XXVII Annual Conference of the Italian Health Economics Association, Messina, Italy, September 2022.
• Keynote speaker at the Health Economics Workshop, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, May 2020 (COVID-19 cancellation).
• Keynote Lecture at the Economics and Human Biology Conference 2016, Tubingen, Germany.

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Teaching

Teaching interests

• Econometrics
• Causal Inference

Modules

2023/24

• BEE3072 - Econometrics: Cause and Effect

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Supervision / Group

Postgraduate researchers

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Office Hours:

Wednesday 9:30-11:30

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