Claire Duquennois is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. She is an applied microeconomist working at the intersection between labor, development, and behavioral economics. Recent work explores the cognitive impacts of poverty on kids and sleep, seasonality in rural labor markets and the impacts of child media. Her research has appeared in academic journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and Food Policy.
She received her PhD from the University of California Berkeley in Agricultural and Resource Economics. She also holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and a BA from the University of Colorado. Previously, she taught undergraduate economics for the University of Colorado Denver in Denver and Beijing.