Applied Microeconomics Seminar with Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton)

Maria Micaela Sviatschi is Associate Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She is also affiliated to the CESifo Research Network, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), the Association for Mentoring and Inclusion in Economics and an associate of Empirical Studies of Conflict.

She is a microeconomist working at the intersection of political economy and development. She studies how individuals’ lives and well-being are shaped by the presence of non-state violence— a common threat across many parts of the developing world—, and seeks to identify policies to reduce exposure to non-state violence. Her work spans three continents (Latin America, SubSaharan Africa, and South Asia) and combines innovative data with frontier empirical methods. 

She has published in the top international journals such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, and Econometrica. Her work is regularly supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), the International Growth Centre (IGC), or more recently the Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) or the World Bank's Knowledge for Change Program (KCP). In 2025 she was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Economics.

Maria Micaela Sviatschi's website

She will present a paper at the next Applied Microeconomics Seminar on the topic:

Can Debiasing Law Enforcement Officers Improve Performance? Evidence from an Expressive Arts Intervention in India (read abstract, PDF 46 KB)

The next Applied Microeconomics Seminar will host Michela CARLANA (Harvard) on May 28th.