Victoria Mooers is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and the Harris School of Public Policy. As a political and public economist, she uses lab experiments and tools from applied microeconomics to study how social networks and institutional design interact to shape the flow of information, political participation, and inequality. Her current work examines how political boundaries affect social learning, showing that voters whose social networks are more closely aligned with their congressional districts are more likely to be informed about their representatives, participate in elections, and donate to candidates in their own district. At the Mansueto Institute, she is extending this research to urban politics, exploring how the alignment of local political subdivisions (such as city council districts and wards) with social networks shapes voter knowledge, engagement in city politics, and the distribution of local public goods. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University and a B.A. in Economics and in Public Policy from the University of Chicago.

Advisers: Anthony Fowler, Sydney A. Stein Jr. Professor, and Christopher Berry, William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor; Director, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation.