Profile

Paulina Oliva is a Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California.

She specializes in the fields of environmental economics and development. In particular, she is interested in the relationship between air pollution and health and on environmental policy effectiveness in the developing world.

Her work uses a variety of microeconometric techniques to study individual incentives and human impacts of air pollution.

Oliva’s research shows that high levels of air pollution can be especially lethal to...

Education

Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Economics, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, México D.F.