Danila Serra
Email: dserra@tamu.edu
Phone: (+1) 979-862-4412 Office:
WCSS 242
I am Associate
Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University, and the holder of the
Claudius M. Easley, Jr. Faculty Fellowship in Liberal Arts (2026-2028). I
have a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the Bush School of
Government and Public Service.
I am an applied behavioral economist employing
experimental methods to address questions in development, education, labor, and
gender economics. I am a J-PAL
Faculty Affiliate, an IZA Research Fellow, an
Affiliated Researcher at the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities ( LEO) and an EGAP research member. I hold a PhD in Economics
from the University of Oxford, an MSc in Economics from the London School of
Economics, and a BSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University.
My research has been funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Russell Sage
Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, the IZA G²LM|LIC program, the Social Science Research Council
(SSRC), JPAL and Arnold Ventures. In 2017, I was selected by the International Foundation
for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE) as the inaugural recipient of
the Vernon
L. Smith Ascending Scholar Prize.
In February 2025, I hosted an “Ask Me Anything”
session organized by JPAL-Africa to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The AMA has been now converted into a blog post (thanks to Paul C. J. Berthe),
featuring some of my research and thoughts on gender equality in education.
Updated January 2026