Joanne Haddad is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgetown University in Qatar. She is an applied microeconomist whose research spans gender and demographic economics, labor economics, economic history, and political economy. Her work investigates gender disparities in the labor market, demographic change, and how immigrants and their cultural backgrounds shape host societies and prevailing norms. She is particularly interested in the formation of cultural norms and the socio-economic legacies of historical events for present-day outcomes, with an emphasis on minority groups and attitudes toward them, female empowerment, and mass migration.
Her research has appeared in Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Canadian Public Policy, Health Policy & Planning, and PLOS One, and has been featured by outlets including Marginal Revolution.
Before joining Georgetown, she was an Assistant Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), affiliated with the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), and an FNRS post-doctoral research fellow at ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Ottawa, following an M.A. in Economics from the American University of Beirut and a B.A. from Université Saint-Joseph. She was a visiting Ph.D. candidate at Boston University and a visiting researcher at the ifo Institute (LMU Munich).
She is a research affiliate of CESifo and RFBerlin, a fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), a contributing scholar at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University, and a research scientist at the Institute for Replication (I4R). She co-organizes the Junior Applied Microeconomists in Europe (JAMiE) workshop series and the AReena network of Arab Economists in Europe and North America.