Eric Verhoogen

Eric Verhoogen is Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics at Columbia University. He is Founding Director and current Co-Director of the Center for Development Economics and Policy (CDEP) at Columbia University and Research Program Director of the International Growth Centre (IGC). He is also Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Board of Directors of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and Affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL).

His main research area is industrial development -- firms, innovation, productivity, trade, industrial policy, labor markets in developing countries. Several of his papers have been concerned with the process of quality upgrading -- why and how firms raise quality when they sell to richer countries, and the consequences for labor and other input markets. Recently he has been working on technology adoption and productivity estimation, among other topics.

Prof. Verhoogen holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of California, Berkeley and a A.B. in History and Science from Harvard College.

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