Raissa Fabregas

Raissa Fabregas joined the LBJ School of Public Affairs as an assistant professor in 2018. She is an applied microeconomist with research interests in development and labor economics. Her work is primarily related to understanding constraints on learning and the accumulation of human capital in developing countries and evaluating interventions and policies that could mitigate those barriers.

Dr. Fabregas holds a B.A. in economics from McGill University (2008), an MSc in development economics from the University of Oxford (2009) and a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University (2018). She serves as a co-principal investigator for Estudio Salus UT, a research project focused on increasing access to scalable mental health and emotional well-being services in Mexico and among Hispanic immigrants in the United States.