Pamela Jakiela

Pamela Jakiela

Pamela Jakiela is an associate professor of economics at Williams College and a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development. Her current work includes research on women’s labor force participation and occupational choice, the gender dynamics of investments in early childhood, preference elicitation techniques appropriate for low-income settings, and active labor market interventions in low-income countries. She received her PhD from UC Berkeley in 2008, and she also holds a BA from the University of Michigan and an MSc from the London School of Economics.