Petra Laura Oreskovic

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at UC Berkeley. My research is in political economy, with a particular interest in electoral campaigns and the media.

I am on the 2026–2027 job market.

During my Ph.D., I worked as a data scientist for the UK Labour Party, focusing on voter targeting, polling, and campaign strategy ahead of its 2024 general election victory, and supporting the Prime Minister’s Office after the election.

I received my B.A. in Applied Math and Economics from Harvard University.

Research

• Where Campaigns Matter: Evidence from Labour’s 2024 General Election Campaign (Job Market Paper)
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• The Electoral Costs of Within-Bloc Competition: A Nationwide Canvassing Experiment with Velibor Mačkić.
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• Selective Omission of Stories and Sources of Bias in Cable News
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Teaching

• ECON 191: Research Methods in Economics, UC Berkeley (Teaching Assistant)
• Understanding Voting, Political Behaviour and Public Opinion: An Introduction to Political Analytics, with Miriam Sorace — forthcoming, SAGE, 2027

Professional Experience

• Data Scientist, UK Labour Party, 2024–2025
• Research Associate, Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia, 2021
• Researcher, Croatian National Bank, 2020–2021
• Research Assistant to Professors Alberto Alesina and Stefanie Stantcheva, 2019–2020