Rate My Professor Ernesto Dal Bo

Dal Bó has been a faculty member at UC Berkeley since 2003, assuming the Phillips Girgich professorship in 2013. He earned a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford. His seminal contributions to the literature include "Regulatory Capture: A Review" published in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy in 2006; "Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service" with Frederico Finan and Martín A. Rossi in The Quarterly Journal of Economics in 2013; "Political Dynasties" with Pedro Dal Bó and Jason Snyder in The Review of Economic Studies in 2009; "Workers, Warriors, and Criminals: Social Conflict in General Equilibrium" with Pedro Dal Bó in the Journal of the European Economic Association in 2011; "Who Becomes a Politician?" with Finan, Olle Folke, Torsten Persson, and Johanna Rickne in The Quarterly Journal of Economics in 2017; and "Plata o Plomo?: Bribe and Punishment in a Theory of Political Influence" with Pedro Dal Bó and Rafael Di Tella in the American Political Science Review in 2006. Dal Bó's scholarship has shaped understandings in political economy on topics including regulatory capture, incentives in public service, political dynasties, social conflict, politician selection, and political influence. He co-won the best paper award at the 2019 Academy of Management Annual Meeting with Frederico Finan and served as Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, during 2023-2024.