Background
Jennifer Hunt is Professor in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University. She previously held positions at McGill University, the University of Montreal and Yale University. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard in 1992 and her Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and is affiliated with several other research institutes. She has done research in the areas of employment and unemployment policy, immigration, wage inequality, transition economics, crime and corruption. She is currently investigating high-skilled immigration to the United States.
Career
Visiting Positions
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica, July 2012
University of Milan, Centro Studi Luco d’Agliano, June 2010
University of British Columbia, Department of Economics, 2008-2009
UCLA, Department of Economics, Spring 2006
Dartmouth College, Department of Economics, Spring 2000
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW-Berlin), SOEP Group, Fall 1999
Stanford University, Hoover Institution, National Fellow,1995-19962
Affiliations with Research Institutes
National Bureau of Economic Research, Research Associate
Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research Fellow
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA-Bonn), Research Fellow
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW-Berlin), Research Professor
Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration, External Fellow
Canadian Labour Market and Skills Research Network, Executive committee
Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, Fellow
Centre de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Economie Quantitative, Fellow
Editorial and Professional Association Positions
Associate editor, Journal of Labor Economics, 2012-present
Editorial board, Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010-present
Member, Executive Council of the Canadian Economics Association, 2009-2012
Co-editor, Canadian Journal of Economics, 2001-2005
Teaching Experience
Graduate labor economics
Undergraduate labor economics
Undergraduate income distribution
Undergraduate intermediate micro-economics
Undergraduate introductory micro-economics
