Andrés Ham González is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and the School of Government at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.

His research interests fit in Applied Microeconomics and specifically encompass Labor, Economics of Education, Development, Violence & Crime, Poverty & Inequality, and Displacement & Migration. Andres’s research is mostly empirical and focuses on different countries in Latin America. This body of work has appeared in outlets such as the Journal of Development Economics, World Development, Labour Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Education Economics, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, IZA Journal of Labor Policy and IZA Journal of Labor & Development, among others.

Andrés received a Ph.D. in Agricultural & Applied Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; an M.A. in Economics at Universidad Nacional de la Plata in Argentina, where he was a member of CEDLAS; and received an undergraduate degree in Economics in his home country from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras.