Labor Policy and Women's Employment in Saudi Arabia

About the speaker: 

Jennifer Peck is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Swarthmore College. Her research focuses on the development of resource-rich countries, linking topics in labor, development, and energy economics. Her recent work examines the labor market in Saudi Arabia, focusing on women’s labor supply, firm-level labor demand, and the impacts of government labor policies on the private sector.  Peck is also currently a faculty fellow of the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS). Before coming to Swarthmore she was a Research Affiliate in the Evidence for Policy Design group at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Complex Engineering Systems, a collaboration between MIT and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology.  Peck received a PhD in Economics from MIT in 2013.