Assistant Professor Naila Shofia’s current research examines how cultural and social identity shapes economic and political outcomes. Her research has received generous funding from J-PAL Southeast Asia, The Roberto Franceschi Foundation, and The LEAP at Bocconi. She employs innovative measurements of social phenomenon, causal identification methods, and Randomised Control Trials in her research. She published an article in Demography and contributed as a referee for prominent journals in social sciences, including The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Policy, and Population Studies. Her job market paper won the UniCredit Foundation Prize in 2020.
She received her PhD from Bocconi University in Milan and holds master’s degrees from The National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and The London School of Economics.
Asst Prof Shofia’s research field is in the intersection between economic development and political economy with particular emphasis on understanding how culture, religion, and social identity influence economic and political outcomes.
Research Specialisations- Social norms
- Religious identities
- Cultural preferences
- Gender in economy and politics
- Political economy of conflict
Gender and the politics of death: female representation, political and development context, and population health in a cross-national panel. Demography. 2018. 55(5). pp 1905–1934 (joint with Ross Macmillan and Wendy Sigle)
- Public Economics
- The Political Economy of Public Policy
- Modern Social Thought
