About Jorge Roca
Associate Professor at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. Research Director at the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and co-director of LAUrban, LACEA urban economics network. My fields of interest include urban economics and labor economics. I am an Editor of the Journal of Economic Geography.Selected Publications
City of dreams (with Gianmarco Ottaviano and Diego Puga),Journal of the European Economics Association 21(2), April 2023: 690–726, Selection in initial and return migration: Evidence from moves across Spanish cities,
Journal of Urban Economics 100, July 2017: 33–53
Learning by working in big cities (with Diego Puga),
Review of Economic Studies 84(1), January 2017: 106–142, Race and neighborhoods in the 21st century: What does segregation mean today? (with Ingrid Gould Ellen and Katherine M. O’Regan),
Regional Science and Urban Economics 47, July 2014: 138–151
Recent Courses Taught
Real Estate Development Fundamentals RED 362, Economics for Policy, Planning and Development PPD 501a/b
Jorge Roca
Associate Professor