As a 2012 course faculty member, Professor Nava Ashraf was associate professor of Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets at the Harvard Business School (HBS). Professor Ashraf conducts research combining psychology and economics, using both lab and field experiments to test insights from behavioral economics in the context of development projects in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Nava Ashraf currently Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics and also Director of Research of the Marshall Institute.

Professor Ashraf’s research combines psychology and economics, using both lab and field experiments to test insights from behavioural economics in the context of global development in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. She also conducts research on questions of intra-household decision making in the areas of finance and fertility. Her papers are published in leading journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Her recent field experiments on health services delivery and educational investment have been carried out jointly with the Ministries of Health and Education in Zambia, using a model of co-generation of knowledge.

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