Education

2014 University of California Davis, Ph.D.
2003 San Diego State University, M.A. in Applied Economics
2000 The University of Michigan, B.A.

Courses Taught

Introduction to Microeconomics
Foundational Economics for Managers

Career Specialties

Daniel Diaz Vidal is an economic historian with an interest in social mobility, international trade, migrations, educational economics and labor economics.

Professional and Community Activities

Diaz Vidal is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Economic History Association and the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

In the 2015-2016 academic year he presented a paper and a poster at ISSOTL15 and received the Gyorgy Ranki Biennial Award for his co-authorship of The Son Also Rises by Gregory Clark with Neil Cummins and Yu Hao Ma. He also had his paper, “Surnames: A new source for the history of social mobility,” with Gregory Clark, Neil Cummins and Yu Hao Ma, published in the journal Explorations in Economic History.

Last year he was also a referee for the European Review of Economic History, and this year he will be presenting a paper at ISSOTL16 and submitting three papers for publication in different journals.

Honors and Awards

Gyorgy Ranki Biennial Award (co-authorship of The Son Also Rises by Gregory Clark) for the best book in European Economic History