About
Inês Vilela is a lecturer in economics at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is a development economist working on political economy and social networks topics. Currently, she is conducting research on the civil conflict in the north of Mozambique. This is a context with low quality of institutions, rich natural resources, and a recent wave of religious extremism. In her work, she uses various methodologies: lab games and field experiments complemented by survey and georeferenced administrative data. She also teaches courses in behavioral and development economics at the undergraduate level. Vilela holds a PhD in economics from Nova SBE.