Petra Person's work has received competitive funding by a range of institutions, including The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the United States National Institues of Health and Social Security Administration, The Boston College Center for Retirement Research, and the Hewlett Foundation/Institute of International Education for research in Population, Reproductive Health and Economic Development.
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Contact
perssonp@stanford.edu
Introduction
Petra Persson is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford’s Department of Economics. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and at the Stanford Center for International Development, and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Her research agenda centers on social insurance and family structure, and explores the interaction between government-provided insurance and intra-family insurance, often with a particular focus on health behaviors and health outcomes.
Petra Persson was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research from 2013 to 2014, and a Predoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Women and Public Policy Program from 2012 to 2013. She earned her PhD in Economics from Columbia University in 2013, her MSc in Economics from Stockholm School of Economics in 2006, and her BA in Political Science and Mathematics from Stockholm University in 2005.