Theodor Kouro

Hi! I am a postdoc and lecturer at Rady School of Management, UC San Diego. Before, I was a Junior Researcher at CERGE-EI in Prague (a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences), where I also received my PhD in Economics. During Fall 2023, I joined John List's team as a visiting scholar at the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago.

My research spans behavioral, experimental, and development economics, with a strong interest in gender economics. In particular, I explore the role of autonomy/agency in prosocial behavior, focusing on charitable giving and volunteering efforts, and emphasizing the behavioral mechanisms that drive agents to increase their giving and effort. I conduct large-scale natural field experiments in relevant settings and collaborate with large NGOs such as UNICEF, corporations, Education Foundations, and, more recently, government institutions in Albania. Currently, I am working on several nationwide field experiments in the field of education economics in collaboration with established researchers and in partnership with the Albanian government and numerous universities in Central & Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

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