Petra Todd

Petra Todd is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on social program evaluation, labor economics and microeconometrics. In particular, she has studied the sources of racial wages disparities, school vouchers, methods to optimize conditional cash transfers programs, and the functioning of pension systems. She is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economics. She is also affiliated with HCEO, IZA, NBER, and the U Penn Population Studies center.