Research Bio

Cecilia Hyunjung Mo is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in behavioral political economy, comparative political behavior, the political economy of development, and social policy research. She focuses on significant contemporary challenges to development and moral issues of today like cultivating democratic citizenship, understanding and addressing the negative consequences of rising inequality, modern day slavery, and prejudice. Her research agenda is interdisciplinary and lies at the intersection of political science, economics, and psychology. 

Research Expertise and Interest

inequality, immigration, human trafficking, political behavior, voting and elections, political socialization, research design and empirical methods