Professor
Business & Public Policy
About
Frederico Finan is a professor in the Haas Business and Public Policy Group. He received his PhD in Agriculture and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley in 2006. Before that, he was an Assistant Professor of economics at UCLA. He is also an affiliate of Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and a research fellow at IZA and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Expertise and Research Interests
- Applied Microeconomics
- Development Economics
- Political Economy
- Frederico Finan and Ernesto Dal Bo. Progress and Perspectives in the Study of Political Selection. Annual Review of Economics.
2018 - Frederico Finan, Ernesto Dal Bo, Olle Folke, Torsten Persson, and Johanna Rickne. Who Becomes a Politician?. Quarterly Journal of Economics.
2017 - Frederico Finan, Eric Avis, and Claudio Ferraz. Do Government Audits Reduce Corruption? Estimating the Impacts of Exposing Corrupt Politicians. Journal of Political Economy.
2017 - Frederico Finan. The Personnel Economics of the State. Economic Field Experiments.
2015 - Frederico FInan, Ernesto Dal Bo, and Martin A. Rossi. Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service. Quarterly Journal of Economics.
2013 - Frederico Finan and Diana B. Moreira. Corrupting Learning: Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil. Journal of Public Economics.
2012
At Haas since 2015
2015 – present, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
2009 – present, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
2006 – 2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UCLA
2004, Consultant, World Bank Group, Washington D.C.
2002, Consultant, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington D.C.
1997 – 2000, Research Analyst, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Macroeconomics and Quantitative Studies Section, Washington D.C.
- 2009 – present, Affiliate, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL)
- 2009 – present, Affiliate, Center of Evaluation for Global Action (CEGA)
- 2009 – present, Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER
- 2008 – present, Affiliate, Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD)
- 2007 – present, Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- 2010 – Associate Editor, Journal of Development Economics
- 2006-2009 – Research Associate, California Center for Population Research
National Science Foundation, Research Grant (PI)
2009
Senate Grant
2007
Latin American Studies Grant
2007
NICHD Pilot Grant, Population Research Center
2007
NICHD Pilot Grant, California Center for Population Research
2006
Tinker Grant
2005
Institute of Business and Economic Research Grant
2004
World Bank Research Support Grant
2004
Tinker Grant
2002
Social Science Research Council Fellowship
2002
- Why competition smashes corruption, Fin24, 11/07/2017
- Does Higher Pay Attract Better Politicians?, Gotham Gazette, 12/05/2016
- Brazil and the Bloodsuckers, Foreign Policy, 08/14/2015
- Does money buy better politicians?, Boston Globe, 09/28/2014
- Four faculty members awarded Sloan Fellowships, The Daily Californian, 02/21/2013