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Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa

PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons)


Reader in Development Economics, SOAS University of London

  • Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER);
  • Research Associate of the Health Economics Research Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford.

Miguel Niño-Zarazúa is a Reader (Professor) in Development Economics at SOAS University of London. 

He previously held appointments at UNU-WIDER in Helsinki, and the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester in the UK.

Dr Niño-Zarazúa holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Sheffield; an MSc in International Development from the University of Bath, and a BSc in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

His work focuses on poverty and inequality measurement and applied research in the areas of labour markets, welfare institutions and the political economy of taxation and redistribution. His expertise lies in employing advanced econometric techniques and experimental and quasi-experimental methods to evaluate the impact of public policies; systematic reviews; and statistical methods, including machine learning techniques to conduct distributional impact analysis with limited information. Specific research areas include inequality, polarization, social exclusion, social protection, labour market policies, education, health policy, tax policy and redistribution, foreign aid and political dimensions of public goods delivery.