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Short bio
Jorge Agüero is an Assistant Professor of Economics
at the University of California, Riverside. His main areas of research
are development and labor economics. Jorge takes an innovative approach
to policies that could help break the intergenerational transmission
of poverty. He is particularly interested in two key areas leading
to poverty persistence: discrimination and the lack of accumulation
of human capital.
Jorge’s research aims to disentangle the myriad theories that explain
discrimination in order to find the most effective policies to attack
this phenomenon. With respect to human capital, his research focuses
on how it accumulates, whether or not current policies and extra-curricular
factors assist in this accumulation, and the speed of its depreciation.
His recent papers address racial discrimination in the labor market,
as well as the role of a government cash transfer program on the accumulation
of human capital.
Jorge holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, a Masters in Economics from the Universitat
Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain), and a BA in Economics from the Pontificia
Universidad Catolica (Lima, Peru). As might be expected from such
an international background, he has worked on projects addressing
poverty in several developing countries, including South Africa, Peru,
and Brazil.
Jorge is married to Michele
Back, a pioneering scholar in Second Language Acquisition and
a skilled linguist. They have one son, Gabriel, who is a future soccer
player for Real Madrid or Barcelona.
How to pronounce my name
coming soon!
Citizenship
Saying that I was born in Peru and now I am also
a Permanent Resident in the United States would be too brief. Specially
when I am a descendant of a mixture of Italian, Irish, Chinese, Spanish,
African, Indigenous Peruvian and who knows what else.
Michele
You can visit my wife's webpage here
Gabriel
You can see pictures of Gabriel Antonio here
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