Rate My Professor Héctor Pifarré i Arolas

Héctor Pifarré i Arolas is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. An applied population economist, his research focuses on the connection between fertility and labor market outcomes and on health and mortality inequality. He has also worked on evaluating the direct and indirect impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on health outcomes and healthcare access. Pifarré i Arolas joined the faculty in fall 2022. He currently serves as associate editor of the European Journal of Ageing.

Pifarré i Arolas earned a BA in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, an MSc in Economic Theory and Econometrics from Toulouse School of Economics, and a PhD in Economics from Toulouse School of Economics. His work lies at the intersection of demography and population economics, studying the determinants and measurement of fertility and mortality, with a central theme being the distinction between period and cohort perspectives in demographic trends. His research has appeared in journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Population Economics, and Demography. In 2023, he received the American Family Funding Initiative award for innovative research methods. He is an affiliate of the UW-Madison Center for Demography and Ecology, the Center for Demography of Health and Aging, and UW-Madison European Studies. He edits the NEP-DEM weekly newsletter of new working papers in demographic economics.