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Nina Pavcnik

    Dartmouth College and IZA

Nina Pavcnik is Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, where she holds the Niehaus Family Professorship of International Studies and a Research Fellow at IZA.  A native of Slovenia, she received a B.A. in Economics from Yale University and earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.  With research interests at the intersection of international trade, development, and industrial organization, her research examines how households, workers, and firms respond to globalization.

Pavcnik is a research associate at the NBER, a research affiliate at the CEPR, a senior fellow at the BREAD, and a research fellow at the IZA.  She currently serves as a Co-editor of the Journal of International Economics, associate editor of the American Economic Review and the World Bank Economic Review, and is a member of the World Bank Research Committee. She has consulted for the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, the Inter-American Development Bank, the United Nations, and the US Department of Labor.

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Related Projects

  • Structural Change, International Trade, and Labour Markets in a Low-Income Country

Related Publications

  • GLM|LIC Policy Brief No. 4

    Creating Formal Sector Jobs in Low-Income Countries
  • GLM|LIC Working Paper No. 9

    Informal Employment in a Growing and Globalising Low-Income Country
  • GLM|LIC Working Paper No. 23

    Out with the Old and Unproductive, in with the New and Similarly Unproductive
  • G²LM|LIC Working Paper No. 89

    Foreign and Domestic Firms: Long Run Employment Effects of Export Opportunities

Published Articles

  • The American Economic Review, 105(5), 545-550

    Informal Employment in a Growing and Globalizing Low-Income Country

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