Welcome! 

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics, affiliated with STICERD.

I am an applied economist with research interests in development economics, political economy, and gender. I study how evidence is used for policy decisions, with a focus on program evaluations and development policy.

Before starting my PhD, I completed an MSc in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford and a BSc in Economics from LSE. I have held research and policy positions at the World Bank and the UN.

On this page, you can find information about my research and teaching.

Research

Works in Progress

Program evaluations and policy spending: Evidence from Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America 


Working papers

Women and Cash Transfers: how program design and local conditions relate to causal estimates of impact (with Gabriela Diaz-Pardo). 

Gender differences in altruism: a Bayesian hierarchical analysis of dictator games  (Draft available upon request)


Published papers

Men are from Mars and Women too: a Bayesian meta-analysis of overconfidence experiments (with Oriana Bandiera, Barbara Petrongolo and Nidhi Parekh).  Economica, 2022 


Teaching

Current courses

IZA/FCDO Online Development Economics Course 2024  

LSE PP402 Quantitative Methods for Public Policy (taught by Mark Schankermann)

UoL EC2066 Microeconomics, Head class teacher (taught by Matthew Levy and Francesco Nava)


Past courses

R course for Economics Research, 2023

LSE EC2A3 Microeconomics II , 2022-2023 (taught by Dimitra Petropoulou)

IZA/FCDO Online Development Economics Course, 2022 (taught by Oriana Bandiera and Robin Burgess) 

LSE EC307 Development Economics, 2020-2021 (taught by Oriana Bandiera and Robin Burgess)

LSE EC400 Probability and Statistical Inference, Sept 2020  (taught by Marcia Schafgans)

LSE EC201 Microeconomic Principles, 2019-2020 (taught by Tim Besley and Dimitra Petropoulou)