Sergio Urzúa is a Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on labor economics, particularly the role of abilities, skills, and uncertainty as key determinants of educational choices, labor market outcomes, social behavior, and inequality. His applied research also explores selection models with unobserved heterogeneity and the impact evaluation of social programs in both developing and developed countries. His work has been published in leading academic journals.

He is also Director of the LACEA Labor Network; Research Director at the Institute for Research on Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE); a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA); and an International Research Associate at Clapes-UC.

Professor Urzúa teaches Labor Economics at the Ph.D. level and Inequality and Poverty, Econometrics, and Policy and Program Evaluation at the undergraduate level. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Chile and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.