Dr. Cuberes received a B.A. from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) in 1998, a Master in Economics and Finance from CEMFI (Madrid, Spain) and an M.A. and Ph.D. in 2001 and 2005, respectively, from the University of Chicago. He has done research and taught at Clemson University, Royal Holloway (UK), Universidad de Aliante (Spain), and the University of Sheffield (UK). He has been at Clark since 2015.
Dr. Cuberes is a consultant for the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank. He is also a member of the Urban Economics Association.
Dr. Cuberes’ research focuses on urban economics and economic growth. In the field of urban economics, his research has analyzed the process of city growth across countries, including the importance of first-nature forces and productivity shocks in the creation and growth of cities, and how the presence of large cities and banks affect this process. He has also studied the effects of wars on urban population and the factors that explain household location within a city. He is currently working on the impact of the canal network on the U.S. economy and on the determinants of where capital cities are located within a country. The main topic he has worked on in the field economic growth is the aggregate effects of gender inequality. He has also published papers on the link between democracy and growth volatility and on the demographic transition.