PHD CANDIDATE, Economics
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Laura Aquino is a Ph.D. student in the Economics Department. Her fields of interest are development economics, gender economics, and law and economics. To learn more about Aquino’s research and publications, visit her webpage.
In Spring 2024, Laura received a CISS Summer mini-grant to be part of the 2024 NOVAFRICA Conference on Economic Development at the Nova School of Business and Economics in July 2024. She will present her research titled “Can I get that in writing?” Lessons from a Contracting Field Experiment in Urban Malawi. This paper studies the effects of introducing a formal contract on outcomes related to compliance, levels of effort exerted, and service quality in contexts where informal contracts are the norm. Learn more in our featured article.