Nina Caroline Buchmann is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Economic Growth Center and the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics. She completed her Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University in 2024. Her primary fields of study revolve around development economics and behavioral economics. Her particular area of interest involves delving into the realms of gender inequality, exploring its manifestations within both household dynamics and the broader labor market.
She will join UC Berkeley’s Economics Department as an Assistant Professor in 2026 after a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton in the 2025-2026 academic year.
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