In Pakistan, encouraging women to apply for jobs immediately after graduation significantly improves their likelihood of working by enabling them to enter the labour market before marriage pressures intensify. Read today's article to learn more:

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🆕 The race between the marriage and the labour markets Today on VoxDev, Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Amen Jalal (LSE) & Nina Roussille (MIT) discuss how encouraging women in Pakistan to apply for jobs immediately after graduation improves their likelihood of working: https://ow.ly/q0oj50Yv9zm

"The race between the marriage and the labour markets" Read the latest @voxdev.bsky.social article by Oriana Bandiera, @amenjalal.bsky.social & Nina Roussille voxdev.org/topic/labour...

The race between the marriage and the labour markets

In Pakistan, encouraging women to apply for jobs immediately after graduation significantly improves their likelihood of working by enabling them to enter the labour market before marriage pressures i...

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Meet @amenjalal.bsky.social , an LSE Economics JM candidate. She won an Outstanding Paper Award at the EEA's Discrimination & Diversity Workshop. Her research interests are in development, environmental & labor economics. JMP: "Screening Women Out? Pay Transparency in Job Postings" amenjalal.com

🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the EALE Tour 2026! 🏆 Martin Wiegand 🏆 Amen Jalal 🏆 Katarina Kuske Selected as 3 outstanding young scholars to take part in a post–job market tour of three leading European institutions in Spring 2026.

Thanks to the World Bank Development Impact blog for featuring my job market paper! Read about it here: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

The Price of Flexibility: Revealing Salaries in Job Postings. Guest post by Amen Jalal

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David McKenzie@dmckenzie.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our job market series continued on Friday: amenjalal.bsky.social shows revealing pay in online job applications reduces gender sorting in Pakistan. Large firms pay more, but are less likely to reveal salaries and offer less job flexibility. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Documenting labor market expectations before graduation, and realized outcomes in the year that follows for university students in Pakistan, from Oriana Bandiera, Amen Jalal, and Nina Roussille https://www.nber.org/papers/w34051

The illusion of time: Gender gaps in job search and employment l Read the latest by Oriana #NBER paper by Oriana Bandiera, @amenjalal.bsky.social & Nina Roussille www.nber.org/papers/w34051

The Illusion of Time: Gender Gaps in Job Search and Employment

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Thanks to the @econthatmatters.bsky.social team for featuring my job market paper! The study finds that, instead of discouraging work, Brazil's national cash transfer actually allows mothers to join the labour force, and that this effect can be complemented by local public good provision 👇

Econ That Matters@econthatmatters.bsky.social · last yr.

Studying Brazil's Bolsa Família program, @leitemariante.bsky.social finds that unconditional cash transfers boost formal employment among women by 7% over two years, while men's employment remains unaffected. www.econthatmatters.com/2025/02/can-...