Carlos Lamarche is Gatton Endowed Professor of Economics and Professor of Statistics at the University of Kentucky. Formerly he has been an Assistant Professor and Chong K. Liew Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma, and Gatton Endowed Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky. He specializes in econometrics and has developed methods for a more informative and robust empirical analysis in labor economics and empirical IO. His work has been published in the Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Public Economics, International Economic Review, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association, among others. He is currently a co-editor at the Southern Economic Journal, Associate Editor of Empirical Economics, Associate Editor of Econometrics, and received several research awards for his work on Quantile Regression. He is also the recipient of several teaching awards. He has held visiting positions at the University of California at Irvine, University of La Plata, and Vanderbilt University.

Lamarche received his MS. in Statistics in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 2010.