About
Mariana Laverde is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston College. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and completed a postdoctoral position at Yale University’s Tobin Center. Her research focuses on applied market design with an emphasis on education markets, including topics like teacher market mechanisms, school choice systems, and spatial equity in education access.
Education background: Ph.D. in Economics (University of Chicago, 2019), Master’s in Economics, and BSc in Mathematics (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia). Her work also extends to urban economics (e.g., housing price indices in Bogotá) and financial systems (systemic risk analysis in Colombia).
Research highlights include analyzing two-sided teacher markets, evaluating school choice policies, and developing hedonic pricing methodologies. Her recent work (2022–2025) emphasizes education policy design and market efficiency. Earlier studies addressed banking regulation and regional development impacts of mining in Colombia.
No scientific awards are explicitly listed, though her publications reflect impactful contributions to applied economics. She advises no students listed here and has no grants mentioned. Her work is affiliated with Boston College’s Economics Department and accessible via RePEc/Google Scholar.
