Jennifer Hunt

Research Fellow

Rutgers University

Jennifer Hunt is Professor of Economics at Rutgers University. From 2013-2015, while on leave from Rutgers, she served first as Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor, then as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to joining Rutgers in 2011, she held positions at McGill University, the University of Montreal and Yale University. Hunt is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London. Her current research focuses on immigration and wage inequality, while past research has also encompassed unemployment, the science and engineering workforce, the transition from communism, crime and corruption. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard and her Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 1999.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10806
published in: ILR Review, 2019, 72 (4), 818-857
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5800
published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2011, Spring 2011, 273 - 319
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4745
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (3), 417-457
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3921
published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (2), 31-56
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2757
published as "Bribery in Health Care in Uganda" in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (5), 699-707
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2278
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 84 (2), 574-589
IZA Discussion Paper No. 757
published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 49 (2), 533-566
IZA Discussion Paper No. 123
published as "Staunching Emigration from East Germany: Age and the Determinants of Migration" in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4 (5), 1014–1037
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