Claire Duquennois

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. I am an applied microeconomist working at the intersections of labor, development and behavioral economics. Much of my research focuses on understanding how exposure to different forms of inequality and poverty, particularly experienced in childhood, affects economic outcomes through behavioral and psychological channels. My work has been published in leading journals including the American Economic Review and the American Economic Review: Insights. 

I received my PhD from the University of California Berkeley in Agricultural and Resource Economics. Previously, I taught undergraduate economics for the University of Colorado Denver in Denver and Beijing.

Publications

Breadwinner’s Burden: The Effect of Financial Concerns on Sleeplessness  (with Maulik Jagnani). American Economic Review: Insights, 2026, 8.1: 53-71. 

Media: VoxDev 

Changing rural labor markets and welfare in Malawi (with Joachim De Weerdt and Adriana Oliveres-Mallol). World Development Perspectives, 2026, 42:100784.

Fictional Money, Real Costs: Impacts of Financial Salience on Disadvantaged Students.  American Economic Review, 2022, 112(3): 798-826. 

Labor Calendars and Rural Poverty: A case study for Malawi (with Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet). Food Policy, 2022, 109.

Climate change, agricultural production and civil conflict: Evidence from the Philippines (with Benjamin Crost, Joseph H. Felter and Daniel I. Rees). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 88, pp 379-395.