Diana Ngo’s research interests are in Applied Microeconomics and Development Economics.
Her current research focuses on measuring living standards in developing countries, evaluating pay-for-performance health systems reform, and examining school choice policies in large urban centers. She currently teaches courses in Intermediate Micro-Economic Theory, Development Economics, and Health Economics.
Prior to joining 17³Ô¹Ï, Ngo earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley and her S.B. in Biomedical Engineering from Harvard University. She has also worked as a consultant at the World Bank, a summer associate at the RAND Corporation, and a post-bachelor fellow at the Harvard Initiative for Global Health, where she published in journals such as The British Medical Journal, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Lancet.