Dayea Oh

Dayea Oh is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. Her works commonly study the causal impacts of desirable social changes and policy designs. In one line of work, Oh focuses on gender by studying the impact of women running for office on her competitors’ campaign finances as well as their voting patterns later in Congress. She also studies how newly exporting Chilean firms change their labor structure and gender composition around the time of entry into the export market, given the gender pay gap. In a different research study , she uses a field experiment to find negative behavioral transmission from school to home and home to school among school-aged children in rural Bangladesh. Most recently, Oh is exploring the patterns of campaign donations in the local and state governments.  Oh graduated with a BA in economics from Rice University and holds a MA in applied economics from Cornell University. She received a PhD in public policy from Harvard.