Monica Singhal is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis. Previously she was Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Her primary area of interest is public finance, and her research has focused on fiscal federalism, redistribution, and public finance in developing countries. Recent research projects have examined systems of extragovernmental finance in developing countries and the effect of culture on redistributive preferences. She is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a member of the International Growth Centre (IGC). She received her BA and PhD from Harvard University.