Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato
The Edward P. Rust Professor of Economics
Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
José E. Feliciano and Kwanza Jones SUPERCHARGED Initiative Faculty Fellow for 2024–2025
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Bio
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato is The Edward P. Rust Professor of Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a faculty associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also the José E. Feliciano and Kwanza Jones SUPERCHARGED Initiative Faculty Fellow for the 2024–25 academic year. He was previously a professor of economics at Duke University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He received a PhD in economics from UC Berkeley and a BA in economics and mathematics from Trinity University; and he is a proud graduate of the AEA Summer Training Program in Economics.
Stanford University Affiliations
- Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) 2012–14
Academic Degrees
- PhD in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2012
- BA in Mathematics and Economics, Magna Cum Laude; Trinity University, TX; 2006
Academic Appointments
- Professor of Economics; Department of Economics, Duke University; 2022
- Associate Professor of Economics; Department of Economics, Duke University; 2019–22
- Kathleen Kaylor and G. Richard Wagoner Jr. Assistant Professor of Economics; Department of Economics, Duke University; 2017–19
- Assistant Professor; Department of Economics, Duke University; 2014–16
Awards and Honors
- José E. Feliciano and Kwanza Jones SUPERCHARGED Initiative Faculty Fellow, 2023–24
- José E. Feliciano and Kwanza Jones SUPERCHARGED Initiative Faculty Fellow, 2022–23
- Citibanamex Prize (2nd place, with A. Brockmeyer, A. Estefan, and K. Ramírez), 2021
- IIPF Peggy and Richard Musgrave Prize (with D. Garrett and E. Orhn), 2021
- American Economic Review: Insights, Excellence in Refereeing Award, 2020
- Washington Center for Equitable Growth (Co-PI with E. Orhn and E. M. Curtis), 2019
- Russel Sage Foundation (Co-PI with E. Orhn and E. M. Curtis), 2019
- National Science Foundation Grant #17300024 (Co-PI with D. Xu), 2017
- International Tax Policy Forum Research Grant, 2017
- Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship, 2015
Professional Experience
- Board of Editors, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2022–present
- Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (FRF starting 7/14), 2019–present
- Research Fellow, CESifo, 2019–present
- Board of Editors, National Tax Journal, 2019–present
- Board of Editors, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019–present
- Co-Editor, Journal of Public Economics, 2019–22