Oriana Bandiera

Oriana Bandiera is the Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and editor for Microeconomic Insights. She specializes in the design of field experiments to evaluate how individual behavior is shaped by monetary incentives and social relationships. Recent work covers field experiments on the provision of incentives for pro-social tasks among community workers in Zambia and the randomized evaluation of large-scale poverty reduction and female empowerment interventions in Bangladesh, Uganda and Tanzania. Oriana earned her PhD in economics from Boston College.

Oriana has served as a lecturer at J-PAL training events and on the review boards of J-PAL's Governance Initiative (GI), Social Protection Initiative (SPI), and Jobs and Opportunity Initiative (JOI).