Johanna ROTH (PhD student) awarded J-PAL Europe grant

In late March, J-PAL's  European Social Inclusion Initiative (ESII) announced the laureates of their 2024 Round IV Request for Proposals that funds randomized evaluations of programmes and policies aimed at improving social inclusion across Europe. 

Congratulations to PhD student Johanna Roth whose project was selected for important and highly competitive ESII support !

Created in 2019, ESII  “aims to promote evidence-based policymaking in the area of social inclusion in Europe”. To do this, it helps “(identify) promising programmes for evaluation, (funds) randomised evaluations, … and (disseminates) research findings". Open to J-PAL affiliates, J-PAL postdocs, PhD-level J-PAL staff, and ESII invited researchers, from all across Europe, ESII’s requests for proposals are also extended to PhD students who have a J-PAL affiliate or invited researcher on their formal thesis committee. 

Johanna Roth is working on a dissertation entitled Essays on Unemployment, Job Search and Policy Evaluation, under the supervision of Pierre Cahuc and is currently visiting the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), under the supervision of Professor Hilary Hoynes.

Her work lies at the intersection of labour and development economics. She is particularly interested in studying the job search behaviour of marginalised groups and exploring ways to enhance their integration into labour markets. 

Johanna’s ESII funded project Housing or Employment First? Experimental Evidence of a Counselling Program for Homeless Job Seekers seeks to bridge the important knowledge gaps in employment trajectories of individuals experiencing homelessness and about the effectiveness of large-scale public policies targeting this population. 

Congratulations Johanna !