Alessandra Voena
Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
Giorgio Ruffolo Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program
Alessandra Voena is a Giorgio Ruffolo Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago's Department of Economics. Her research focuses on economics of the family, labor economics, and development economics. Alessandra is engaged in two studies examining Zambian families' decision making about fertility and agricultural investments: Maternal mortality and the gender gap in the demand for children with Nava Ashraf and Erica Field; and Tenure security and agricultural investment: Theory and evidence from Zambia with Brian Dillon. Alessandra is contributing to collaborative work with the Initiative on Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development led by William Clark.
She received her PhD in Economics from Stanford University (2011) and BA in Economics from the University of Torino in Italy (2005). While at Stanford, she was a Graduate Dissertation Fellow at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Studies and was selected to participate in the May 2011 Review of Economic Studies European Tour.
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Email: alessandra_voena@hks.harvard.edu
Homepage: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/alessandra-voena