Juanna Schrøter Joensen is a Research Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. Her research examines how people make consequential choices about education, work, and family formation, and how policies can shape these choices and their consequences.  She studies why financial aid design, school curricula, choice sets, and other financial and non-financial incentives affect behavior so differently across socioeconomic groups, skill levels, and gender.  Her work reveals how policy design, timing, and individual circumstances can either reduce or reinforce human capital and income inequality.  Joensen is an Editor for the Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics (JPE Micro) and she has received several prizes for her research, including the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Young Labour Economist Prize.

She joined the IZA network as a Research Fellow in August 2014.