ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HIRING UPDATE

PUBLISHED ON MAR 1, 2021

We are pleased to announce that Anne Karing and Christina Brown will be joining the junior faculty at the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics.

Karing completed her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley (2019) and is currently an Assistant Professor at Princeton University. Her research focuses on the intersection of development and behavioral economics, reflected in her dissertation, “Social Signaling and Health Behavior in Low-Income Countries.” Her job market paper “Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone” examines social signaling in the context of child immunization in Sierra Leone wherein she implemented a 22-month-long experiment in 120 public clinics.

She will join the faculty as the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Economics and the College on July 1, 2021.

Her personal website can be viewed here: https://sites.google.com/view/annekaring.

Brown is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on topics related to labor and behavioral economics and examines labor market imperfections in low-income settings. In Brown’s dissertation, “Essays on Personnel Economics in Low-Income Countries,” she addresses the sorting and incentive effects of performance pay for teachers in Pakistan by running a field experiment in Pakistan where schools are randomized into performance pay or fixed pay contracts.

She will join the faculty on July 1, 2023 following a 2-year postdoctoral research position at the Becker Friedman Institute of Economics at the University of Chicago.

Her personal website can be viewed here: https://sites.google.com/site/christinabrownecon/