Teodora Boneva is Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich.

She was previously Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. She received her PhD in Economics at the University of Cambridge and was a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow at University College London (UCL) before joining Oxford.

Her research interests include Applied Microeconomics and Labor Economics, and her research also relates to Behavioral and Experimental Economics. In her current research, she investigates the role of beliefs in educational investment decisions and the role of educational interventions in fostering skills in childhood.

She joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in July 2016.