Juanna Schrøter Joensen is a Research Associate Professor in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department 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).  She is also a Visiting Associate Professor at the TrygFonden Centre for Child Research at Aarhus University, Affiliated Researcher at the Karl-Adam Bonnier Center for Governance at the Stockholm School of Economics, a Network Member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).  Joensen earned her Ph.D. in Economics from Aarhus University and she has received serveral prizes for her research, including the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Young Labour Economist Prize.

At Chicago since 2015