Jorge De la Roca is a recent graduate from CEMFI PhD in Economics program and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University. His primary fields of specialization are urban economics, economic geography, labor economics and real estate. His research focuses on agglomeration economies and urban migration across cities of different sizes. More recently, he has also being studying the consequences of racial segregation in the United States.