Mayara is a PhD stu­dent in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She pre­vi­ous­ly worked as a research assis­tant to Professors Josh Angrist and Parag Pathak at SEII, and as a Senior Analyst at Cornerstone Research. Mayara grad­u­ated from Mount Holyoke College in eco­nom­ics and math­e­mat­ics in 2011. Her main research inter­ests are in labor eco­nom­ics, devel­op­ment, and econometrics.