Ornella Darova

About me

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Center for International Development. In Fall 2026, I will join the Department of Economics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as an assistant professor.

My primary research interests lie in empirical microeconomics, with a focus on development economics, the economics of education, and social program evaluation. I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

My current research combines structural, experimental, and quasi-experimental methods to study the determinants of cognitive achievement and the social dynamics of multilingual and multiethnic settings.