Amen Jalal

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...

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 Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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

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 👇