Juan Pantano is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Economics of Human Development. He was previously an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Washington University in St.Louis. His research spans several areas in empirical microeconomics, with particular interest in family economics and the economics of fertility. He is a member of the American Economic Association, The Econometric Society and the Population Association of America.

Pantano received a B.A. in Economics from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from University of California, Los Angeles in 2005 and 2008 respectively.