Human Capital and Economic Opportunity: A Global Working Group

Salvador Navarro

University of Western Ontario
Associate Professor

Salvador Navarro is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario. He is also affiliated with the Institute for Research on Poverty and the Center for Demography and Ecology at Wisconsin. He holds an A.B. in Economics from ITESM Monterrey, an M.A. in Economics from El Colegio de Mexico and an M.A. and a Ph.D. both in Economics from the University of Chicago. His research focuses on questions of identification in applied microeconomics problems. He has worked on topics related to education (credit constraints and information, effects of grade retention policy), crime (deterrence and the death penalty), discrimination (racial profiling), identification of dynamic models (dynamic treatment models, dynamic discrete choice models with aggregate data) and the analysis of plant level productivity amongst others.

Working Group

Markets (M)

Additional Information

Email: s.navarro.lozano@gmail.com