Janneke Pieters

Welcome to my website

I am the Labor Program leader at the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (since February 2024). 

Until 2025 I was Associate Professor in the Development Economics Group at Wageningen University. I am affiliated as Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER.

My research interests are in the fields of labor economics, inequality, and economic development. Over the past years I have mainly studied the link between economic development and employment, including the impacts of structural transformation, globalization and technological change; and the determinants and consequences of women's labor market outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. 

Key publications:

• • Jobs and political participation – Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia (2024). Journal of Politics, 86(2). With Lovise Aalen, Andreas Kotsadam, and Espen Villanger. (Ungated draft version, Pre-analysis plan)

  • Women’s Work – Routes to economic and social empowerment (2024). With Ashwini Deshpande, Kunal Sen, and Maria Lo Bue. Introduction article for the special issue in World Development

  • Parental unemployment and child health in China (2020). Review of Economics of the Household, 18(1), pp. 207-237. With Samantha Rawlings

  • Globalization and social change: gender-specific effects of trade liberalization in Indonesia (2018). IMF Economic Review, 66(4), pp.763-793. With Krisztina Kis-Katos and Robert Sparrow

  • The Gendered Labor Market Impacts of Trade Liberalization: Evidence from Brazil (2017). Journal of Human Resources, 52(2), pp.457-490. With Isis Gaddis -- For a non-technical summary, see this Policy brief.

For a list of published papers, working papers, and work in progress, see my Research page.