Diana Moreira

Diana Moreira is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis, Department of Economics. She is also a Faculty Affiliate at the NBER Political Economy Program and Development Economics Program, at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development BREAD and at the Center for Effective Global Action CEGA, an Invited Researcher for JPAL and Weiss Family Fund, and a Lemann Fellow.

Her current research focus is in the field of Development Economics, in particular, its intersection with Public, Political and Organizational Economics. As a researcher, she is interested in two topics, poor governance in governments and social mobility, both of which she studies in the developing economies context. Her research has been published in the American Economic Review, in the Journal of Public Economics and has been featured in leading Brazilian media outlets.

She earned a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University.