Salvador Navarro

Assistant Professor of Economics
6424 Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 262-3281
snavarro@ssc.wisc.edu


Curriculum Vitae

Research Interest Statement
Navarro’s research focuses on clarifying the sources of information required for identification of empirical models. In particular: 1) the use of restrictions from economic theory to obtain identification. Navarro has shown how one can recover firm level productivity and markups by using all the information contained in the cost minimization hypothesis. He has also shown how the restrictions that microeconomic models imply on aggregate data (namely the deterrence effect of the death penalty on crime) generate aggregate testable implications for individual level hypotheses; 2) the importance of accounting for dynamics in empirical research. Navarro has shown how to estimate and identify dynamic sequential models with general forms of unobserved heterogeneity, relaxing some of the negative results on the literature. He has developed a framework to evaluate the effect of dynamic treatments; and 3) on the proper specification of agents’ information sets, Navarro has developed a test that identifies the fraction of the unobservables to the analyst that are observed by the agent.

CDE Research Theme Working Groups
Demography of Inequality
Health and Mortality
Data and Methodology