Kristina Veskovic is a rising senior at the University of Chicago studying Economics and Russian and East European Studies. Her research considers the intersections of law, economics, and behavioral social science.
Veskovic is a research assistant in the Multilingualism and Decision-Making Lab in the University of Chicago’s Psychology Department. At the Paul Douglas Institute, she has conducted quantitative analysis of transit policy and job access. She is at work on a project with the Slavic Department at the University of Chicago on bilingualism and wage equity among second-generation Serbian Americans.
After graduation, Veskovic plans to pursue a JD/PhD in Economics to study how behavioral and economic forces shape the effective reach of legal and public institutions. This summer, Veskovic will work with ABF Research Professor William H. J. Hubbard, who is Deputy Dean and Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Chicago, on his research on access to justice, civil procedure, and the economics of litigation.