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Nava Ashraf is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics. She received her PhD in Economics from Harvard University and has served as an Assistant and Associate Professor from 2005 to 2016. Ashraf leads initiatives with the Zambia International Growth Centre (IGC) and is a Fellow at BREAD. She is also an Affiliated Professor at the MIT Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Her research intersects psychology and economics, utilizing lab and field experiments to explore insights from behavioral economics within the contexts of global development across Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. She is noted for pioneering the concept of altruistic capital, which focuses on leveraging individuals' intrinsic desires to make a positive social impact. Recent field experiments conducted by Ashraf on health services delivery and educational investment were carried out in collaboration with the Ministries of Health and Education in Zambia, employing a co-generation knowledge model. Her work has been published in prominent journals such as the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Journal of Economic Perspectives. Additionally, she teaches a course titled 'Applying Behavioral Economics for Social Impact: Design, Delivery, and Evaluation of Policy.'
Department of Economics