Ornella Darova
PhD Candidate
Ornella Darova specializes in empirical microeconomics with a focus on development economics, the economics of education and social program evaluation. Her current research combines structural, experimental and quasi-experimental methods to study the key determinants of cognitive achievement outcomes and social dynamics in multilingual and multiethnic settings.
Job Market Paper:
Language, Bullying, and Learning: School Choice in Multilingual Contexts.
Publication:
Cusolito, A. P., Darova, O. & McKenzie, D. (2023). Capacity building as a route to export market expansion: A six-country experiment in the Western Balkans. Journal of International Economics, 144, 103794.
Working Papers:
Darova, O., Gálvez-Soriano, O. (2024) Language Policy and Skill Formation: English-Indigenous Complementarities.
Darova, O., Duchene, A. (2024) Diversity in Teams: Collaboration and Performance in Experiments with Different Tasks.
Selected Work in Progress:
Darova, O., Schwanebeck, A. The Impact of Workplace Harassment on the Occupational Outcomes of Women: A Structural Approach to an Equilibrium Problem.
Darova, O., Duchene, A. Stereotype Threat and Group Work.
Darova, O., Samujjwala, S. Indigenous Teacher Supply and Parental Involvement: Evidence from Mexico's Bilingual Education System.
Affiliations:
Penn Development Research Initiative & DevLab.
Empirical Microeconomics, Economics of Education, Development Economics
