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Welcome! I'm an applied microeconomist and my research explores how health, psychological factors, and social norms influence poverty, gender inequality, and economic development. My work has been published in the American Economic Review, Annual Review of Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Lancet Psychiatry and other peer-reviewed journals across multiple disciplines. I was recently awarded the Economic Society of Australia's 2026 Young Economist Award.
I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne, where I direct the FBE Gender Lab. I'm also an affiliate of J-PAL and the Centre for Market Design, a research affiliate at CEPR, and a research fellow at the Life Course Centre and IZA. I serve as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Health Economics. I received my PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago, where I was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.
I am on sabbatical at the University of Pompeu Fabra, in Barcelona, Spain, from September 2026 through February 2027.
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address: Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne, 111 Barry Street, Level 4 FBE Building, VIC 3010, Australia
office: 337 FBE Building
phone: +61 3 8344 5292
email: victoria.baranov@unimelb.edu.au
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