Teodora Boneva

Welcome to my webpage! My primary research fields are labor economics and education economics, and my research focuses on gender inequality, socioeconomic inequality, and the formation of skills and preferences. 

I collect novel data and use a variety of different research methods such as field experiments and survey-based techniques to understand how we can promote skill acquisition and narrow socioeconomic gaps in educational and labor market outcomes. I was recently awarded an ERC Starting Grant to study the role of different factors in maternal labor supply decisions.

I am Professor of Applied Microeconomics at the Department of Economics at the University of Bonn. I was previously Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development at the University of Zurich, and Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at Hertford College. I am also Research Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Fellow of the Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program, Research Affiliate of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and Member of the CESifo Research Network and the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) Global Working Group. I am  a Founding Member & Organizer of the Early-Career Behavioral Economics (ECBE) Conference.

Since 2022, I serve on the Editorial Board of The Review of Economic Studies.