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# Petra Todd, Professor
> Petra Todd is a Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and a Research Associate of Penn's Population Studies Center. Her research focuses on social program evaluation, labor economics and microeconometrics, with current work on school incentive programs in Mexico and school vouchers in Chile.

## 一、详细说明 
	Petra Todd, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
	Petra is also a Research Associate of Penn’s Population Studies Center. She serves as an Associate Editor for the American Economic Review and the Journal of Human Capital. Her main fields of research are social program evaluation, labor economics, and microeconometrics. She has published papers on the determinants of cognitive achievement, testing for discrimination in motor vehicle searches, sources of racial wage disparities, and methods for evaluating and optimally designing conditional cash transfer programs. She is currently working on implementing a large-scale randomized school incentive program in Mexican high schools, on analyzing the effects of school vouchers in Chile and on assessing the effects of government regulation on the operation of the privatized pension market in Chile.

## 二、引用与来源
- 原文来源：<>
- 机构：上海国家会计学院
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