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Marcos Rangel is an applied microeconomist whose research focuses on human capital accumulation patterns, with a particular emphasis on intra-family decision-making processes involving parents and children, and the impact of policies in education and health. His work has enhanced the understanding of how negotiations within families affect resource allocation for children's human capital investment. Recent projects investigate the impacts of prenatal care policies and maternal labor regulations on child outcomes, utilizing innovative data approaches to infer causal effects. Rangel employs satellite imagery to assess agricultural activities and their effects on health outcomes for infants and mothers-to-be. He is a research affiliate at prominent institutions such as the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT, BREAD, and the Population Research Center at NORC. His editorial contributions include serving as an associate editor for the Journal of Development Economics. He has received recognition including the Royal Economic Society's Article of the Year Award.
Sanford School of Public Policy • Durham, NC
Academic position focused on research and teaching in public policy and economics.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)