Laura Barbosa de Carvalho (born 1984) is a Brazilian economist, associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Administration at the University of São Paulo.

Carvalho has a master's degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a doctorate from the New School.

Her research area is macroeconomics, focusing on economic development and income redistribution.

[1] Her 2018 book Valsa Brasileira: do boom ao caos econômico, which analyzes the growth and subsequent crisis of the Brazilian economy starting in 2014, became one of the country's best-selling books that year.

[2][3] Still in 2018, she participated in the initial formulation of the economic proposals of the pre-candidate Guilherme Boulos, who was running for president for the Socialism and Liberty Party in the 2018 presidential election.