Duncan Webb is a development economist who uses tools and insights from behavioural economics. His current projects focus on discrimination, social change, and human capital. He joined NovaSBE as an assistant professor in 2025, after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University. He completed his PhD at the Paris School of Economics, spent the 2022-23 academic year as a visiting researcher at MIT, and the year 2021 at UC Berkeley. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

2024 - PhD in Economics; Paris School of Economics

2019 - Master in Public Policy and Development; Paris School of Economics

2015 - Bachelor in Philosophy, Politics, Economics; Oxford University  

Development, Behavioral, Political

• Webb, Duncan (2024). Critical periods in cognitive and socioemotional development: Evidence from weather shocks in indonesia. Economic Journal, 134 (660), 1637-1665.
• Laajaj, Rachid, Webb, Duncan, Aristizabal, Danilo, Behrentz, Eduardo, Bernal, Raquel, Buitrago, Giancarlo, Cucunubá, Zulma, de la Hoz, Fernando, Gaviria, Alejandro, Hernández, Luis Jorge, De Los Rios, Camilo, Ramírez Varela, Andrea, Restrepo, Silvia, Schady, Norbert, Vives, Martha (2022). Understanding how socioeconomic inequalities drive inequalities in COVID-19 infections. Scientific Reports, 12 (1).
• Laajaj, Rachid, De Los Rios, Camilo, Sarmiento-Barbieri, Ignacio, Aristizabal, Danilo, Behrentz, Eduardo, Bernal, Raquel, Buitrago, Giancarlo, Cucunubá, Zulma, de la Hoz, Fernando, Gaviria, Alejandro, Hernández, Luis Jorge, León, Leonardo, Moyano, Diane, Osorio, Elkin, Varela, Andrea Ramírez, Restrepo, Silvia, Rodriguez, Rodrigo, Schady, Norbert, Vives, Martha, Webb, Duncan (2021). COVID-19 spread, detection, and dynamics in Bogota, Colombia. Nature Communications, 12 (1).