Alice Zulkarnain is a senior economist at the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy analysis. Prior to joining CPB, she was an economist at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

She studies labor market policy focused on income support, older workers, and gender with an interest in effectiveness and spill-over effects on health, poverty, and well-being. Her work has been published in Demography and Review of Economics of the Household.

She received her PhD in economics from the Graduate Center – The City University of New York in the fields of labor economics and health economics, and was a Demography Fellow at the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research.
She was a post-doctoral fellow in the Economics of an Aging Workforce at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Alice joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in November 2016.