Dr. Juliane Zenker

Juliane Zenker focuses on evidence-based policy analysis, drawing on public, labour and gender-economics perspectives. Her work evaluates government interventions in Germany—ranging from employment regulation and family benefits to migration policy—and assesses their effects on labour-market participation, gender equality and distributional outcomes. Previously, she served as a Senior Researcher and Dorothea-Schlözer Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Göttingen and was a Co-Principal Investigator on randomized policy evaluations in Afghanistan for the World Bank; she was also involved in World Bank and 3ie policy evaluations in Liberia, India and Nepal and gained hands-on primary-data-collection experience in Thailand. She earned her PhD in Economics at the University of Göttingen within the DFG Research Training Group “Globalization and Development,” and in 2020 was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2023, she has been a member of the Standing Committee on Development Economics of the German Economic Association. Her projects have been supported by the World Bank’s Gender Innovation Lab, 3ie, the Joachim Herz Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German Research Foundation (DFG).