Nina Buchmann

Nina Buchmann is an economist specializing in development and behavioral economics, with a focus on gender inequality in households and labor markets.1 She is currently a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Economic Growth Center and the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics for the 2024-2025 academic year.156

Buchmann's career trajectory includes:

1. Associate in Research at Duke University (August 2015)4
2. PhD in Economics from Stanford University (2024)2
3. Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University (July 2024 - present)456
4. Future position at UC Berkeley's Economics Department (2026)1
5. Planned postdoc at Princeton for the 2025-2026 academic year1

Her research includes studies on child marriage in Bangladesh, paternalistic discrimination in labor markets, and the impacts of girls' empowerment programs.3 Buchmann has published in prestigious journals such as the American Economic Review and has ongoing projects examining intimate partner violence, long-term impacts of adolescent girls' empowerment programs, and the economics of domestic violence.3