Ornella Darova

About me

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and I was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Center for International Development.

 

My research is in empirical microeconomics, spanning development economics, the economics of education, and social program evaluation. I combine structural, experimental, and quasi-experimental methods. My current research agenda focuses mainly on how language and ethnicity shape learning and social behavior, questions with particular resonance in Hawaiʻi, the only US state with two official languages.