Christina Brown

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago

@christinalbrown

Christina Brown is a development economist studying labour and behavioural economics questions. Her research examines labour and education market imperfections, especially around issues of asymmetric information.

Dr. Brown is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley and worked as a consultant for the World Bank and Save the Children. Prior to working as a researcher, she taught high school physics.

Recent work by Christina Brown

Building cognitive endurance: How a simple change in the school day can transform attentional capacity

Promoting sustained effortful mental activity in Indian primary schools markedly improved student cognitive and educational outcomes across a wide range of subjects.

Education

Christina Brown Supreet Kaur Geeta Gandhi Kingdon Heather Schofield

Published 26.06.25

Can performance pay allow schools to attract and retain better teachers? Evidence from Pakistan

Performance pay contracts attract teachers who improve both test score and non-test score outcomes for students

Education

Christina Brown Tahir Andrabi

Published 02.08.21

Christina Brown

Recent work by Christina Brown

Building cognitive endurance: How a simple change in the school day can transform attentional capacity

Can performance pay allow schools to attract and retain better teachers? Evidence from Pakistan