JOAQUIN URREGO
Assistant Professor
Research Interest: Urban Economics, Economics of Crime, Development, and Real Estate
Joaquin A. Urrego is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Wake Forest University. Before joining Wake Forest, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Syracuse University.
His research lies at the intersection of urban economics, development economics, economics of crime, and real estate, with a focus on how the built environment, neighborhood amenities, and public policy shape spatial patterns of urban development, informal housing, crime, commercial activity, and police behavior. His work uses GIS methods, spatial analysis, and causal inference tools to study cities in the United States and Latin America.
Courses
ECN150: Introduction to Economics
ECN372: Economics of Cities and Real Estate Markets
Featured Publications
- Canavire-Bacarreza, G.; Gomez, C.; and Urrego, J. (2025). “Offside Urban Echoes: Exploring the Spatial Dynamics of Soccer and Crime in Medellin”. Journal of Sports Economics, 26(5).
- Rosenthal, S.; Strange, W.; and Urrego, J.A. (2022). “JUE Insights: Are City Centers Losing Their Appeal? Commercial Real Estate, Urban Spatial Structure, and COVID-19″. Journal of Urban Economics, 127.
- Pena, P.; Urrego, J.A.; and Villa, J. (2017). “Civil Conflict and Conditional Cash Transfers: Effects on Demobilisation”. World Development, 99, 431-440.
- Canavire-Bacarreza, G.; Urrego, J.A.; and Saavedra, F. (2017). “Informality and Mobility in the Labor Market: an analysis based on repeated cross-sectional household survey data”. Latin American Journal of Economic Development, 27, 57-76.