Pamplona. October 15th, 2012.

Climent Quintana-Domeque (Ph.D. Princeton University) is Associate Professor at the University of Alicante. During his visit to the NCID, Quintana-Domeque presented his paper, “Paving Streets for the Poor: Experimental Analysis of Infrastructure Effects, which focused on the role of infrastructure in in the active reduction of poverty. In this paper, he explains how Acayucan, a city in Mexico, increased its level of consumption after the implementation of a pavement program designed by the regional government. Quintana-Domeque concluded that the economic returns of street pavement in this developing urban region can be as large as the construction.

Climent is an Associate Professor at the Universidad de Alicante. After obtaining his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2008, he worked as Assistant Professor of Economics in Alicante. He was tenured in April 2012. Climent´s research focuses on economic development, health economics, family economics, and labor economics.
He joined the Institute for the Study of Labor as a Research Fellow in October 2010. In May 2011, he also became a member of the Family Inequality Working Group, University of Chicago.