MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
MacMillan Center

Miguel Sousa Duarte

Fox International Fellow
Fox International Fellowship, MacMillan Center
Academic Year: 2026-27
Direction: To Yale
Exchange Partner: The Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Project Title: Designing Pension Transitions: Welfare, Cohort Incidence, and Macroeconomic Effects

Miguel Sousa Duarte is a PhD Fellow in Economics at Copenhagen Business School, where his research addresses the socioeconomic and fiscal challenges of aging populations. His work focuses on how pension system designs influence labor supply and retirement behavior, particularly through the lens of longevity adjustments and wealth inequality.

Affiliated with the Pension Research Centre (PeRCent), Miguel combines applied microeconometrics with structural modeling to evaluate the distributional and behavioral impacts of public policy. He specifically utilizes the richness of Scandinavian administrative data to calibrate large-scale quantitative models.  

His academic contributions include a peer-reviewed publication in International Tax and Public Finance and a chapter in the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. He has also served as a Teaching Assistant for Microeconomics.

Miguel holds an M.S. in Advanced Economics and Finance from Copenhagen Business School and a B.S. in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics. Prior to beginning his doctoral studies, he gained professional experience in an office-based role within the retail industry and worked as a certified lifeguard.