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Petra Todd is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on social program evaluation, labor economics, and microeconometrics. She is a Research Associate at NBER, IZA, and Penn’s Population Studies Center, and serves on editorial boards for the International Economic Review and Econometrics Journal. A Fellow of both the Econometric Society and Society of Labor Economists (SOLE), her work addresses gender labor disparities, minimum wage policies, and education reforms. Current projects include analyzing Mexico’s preschool reforms, U.S. local minimum wage effects, and grade retention impacts in Portugal.
Her research interests span structural econometric models applied to policy evaluation, with emphasis on labor market disparities, pension systems, and conditional cash transfer programs. Recent projects investigate personality traits’ role in gender wage gaps and dynamic evaluation of educational policies. Todd’s contributions include foundational work on impact evaluation methods, as detailed in her co-authored book *Impact Evaluation in International Development*.
- Awards: Fellow of the Econometric Society (20XX), Fellow of SOLE (20XX)
- Key Projects: Mexico’s preschool mandate evaluation, U.S. minimum wage spatial analysis
