Danila Serra
Associate
Professor
Texas A&M University
Department
of Economics
& Bush
School of Government and Public Service
Email: dserra@tamu.edu
Phone: (+1) 979-862-4412 Office:
LASB 242
In Fall 2025
(Sep-Dec) I will be visiting Boston
University.
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.
I am currently the Economics Department Graduate
Placement Director. For information on our talented Job Market Candidates,
see: Job
market Candidates.
Updated March 2025