Duncan Webb

Assistant Professor, Nova SBE

Duncan is an incoming Assistant Professor at NOVA. He is a development economist who uses tools and insights from behavioral economics. His current projects focus on understanding discrimination, gender, social change, and human capital.

Publications

Critical Periods in Cognitive and Socioemotional Development: Evidence from Weather Shocks in Indonesia

Economic Journal, Volume 134, Issue 660, May 2024, Pages 1637–1665.

Understanding how socioeconomic inequalities drive inequalities in COVID-19 infections

with Laajaj, R., Webb, D., Aristizabal, D. et al., Scientific Reports 12, 8269 (2022).

COVID-19 spread, detection, and dynamics in Bogota, Colombia

with Laajaj, R., De Los Rios, C., Sarmiento-Barbieri, I. et al., Nature Communications 12, 4726 (2021).

Working Papers

Psychological Mechanisms for Measuring Preferences and Beliefs

with Evan Friedman and Suanna Oh , 2025.

Menstrual Stigma, Hygiene, and Human Capital: Experimental Evidence from Madagascar

with Karen Macours and Julieta Vera Rueda, 2024.

Silence to Solidarity: How Communication About a Minority Affects Discrimination

R&R, Journal of Political Economy, Winner of Weiss NEUDC Distinguished Paper 2023.