Assistant Professor
Education:
Ph.D., Public Policy, Harvard University, 2018
M.Sc., Economics for Development, University of Oxford, 2009
B.A., Economics, McGill University, 2008
Research Areas:
Development Economics
Labor Economics
Education Economics and Policy
Teaching Areas:
Economics
Development Policy
Research and Empirical Methods
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).