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

She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Becker Friedman Institute and will join the University of Chicago’s Economics Department as an Assistant Professor in 2023. She received a PhD 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.