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Francesca Truffa

    University of Michigan

Francesca Truffa is an Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Previously, she was a Lazear Liang postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 2022, she received her Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University. She is an applied microeconomist interested in topics in labor, innovation, and entrepreneurship with a particular focus on gender inequality and diversity. Her research spans across multiple countries such as the U.S., Ghana, and Germany. In her work, she uses both quasi–experimental and experimental variation (including the design and implementation of RCTs). She utilizes a combination of administrative data and original data collected from field experiments and scrapped from publicly available sources. Together with Ashley Wong, in 2018, she was a grant recipient of the Weiss Fund and the J-PAL Post-Primary Initiative for their field research in Ghana on “Effect of Beliefs and Gender Roles on Girls’ Math Education.”

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