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  Navarro was born on July 15, 1949, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is of Italian descent. His father, Albert "Al" Navarro, a saxophonist and clarinetist, led a house band, which played summers in New Hampshire and winters in Florida. After his parents divorced when he was 9 or 10, he lived with his mother, Evelyn Littlejohn, a Saks Fifth Avenue secretary, in Palm Beach, Florida. As a teen, he lived in Bethesda, Maryland in a one-bedroom apartment with his mother and brother. Navarro attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.
  
  Navarro attended Tufts University on an academic scholarship, graduating in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then spent three years from 1973 to 1976 in the U.S. Peace Corps, serving in Thailand, traveling to Laos, South Korea, Japan, India, Myanmar and Malaysia during his holiday breaks. According to The San Diego Union-Tribune, Navarro recalled listening to Voice of America and hearing Jimmy Carter 's presidential campaign on a "message of hope". He received a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University 's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1979, and a PhD in economics from Harvard under the supervision of Richard E. Caves in 1986. His doctoral dissertation was titled "A theoretical and empirical investigation of corporate charity motives".
  
  Navarro was born on July 15, 1949, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is of Italian descent. His father, Albert "Al" Navarro, a saxophonist and clarinetist, led a house band, which played summers in New Hampshire and winters in Florida. After his parents divorced when he was 9 or 10, he lived with his mother, Evelyn Littlejohn, a Saks Fifth Avenue secretary, in Palm Beach, Florida. As a teen, he lived in Bethesda, Maryland in a one-bedroom apartment with his mother and brother. Navarro attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.
  
  Navarro attended Tufts University on an academic scholarship, graduating in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then spent three years from 1973 to 1976 in the U.S. Peace Corps, serving in Thailand, traveling to Laos, South Korea, Japan, India, Myanmar and Malaysia during his holiday breaks. According to The San Diego Union-Tribune, Navarro recalled listening to Voice of America and hearing Jimmy Carter 's presidential campaign on a "message of hope". He received a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University 's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1979, and a PhD in economics from Harvard under the supervision of Richard E. Caves in 1986. His doctoral dissertation was titled "A theoretical and empirical investigation of corporate charity motives".