Ofer Malamud, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harris SchoolOfer Malamud, an assistant professor in the Harris School, conducts research in labor economics and the economics of education. His work focuses on understanding why education affects labor market outcomes and whether different types of education affect such outcomes in different ways. In past work, he has examined the relative returns to academic and vocational education in Romania, and the trade-off between early and late specialization in higher education in England and Scotland. He has also studied whether education affects the ability to respond to spatial disequilibrium through regional migration in the United States, and the effect of education and other skills on migration out of Mexico. Most recently, he has looked at the impact of home computer use on the development of children's human capital in Romania, and has several follow-up projects on computer and internet use in Chile and Peru.
Malamud received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 2004, where he also graduated magna cum laude with a BA in economics and philosophy. He is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economics Research and a faculty affiliate at the University of Chicago's Population Research Center and the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy. He was also a Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow during 2003-2004.
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1155 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Suite 162
E-mail: malamud@uchicago.edu
Phone: 773-702-2389
