I research issues in development, labor, education, gender, and inequality in the Middle East and North Africa. Specific population studies related research I have published includes on employment, education, fertility, marriage, girl child marriage, among other topics. I have published in Demography, Demographic Research, Journal of Population Economics, Population Research and Policy Review, Population Studies, Studies in Family Planning, and frequently present at PAA.
Dr. Caroline Krafft is an associate professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. She received her master's degree in public policy from the Humphrey School and her PhD from the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. Her research examines issues in development economics, primarily labor, education, health, and inequality in the Middle East and North Africa. Current projects include work on green jobs, conflict and displacement, gender and labor markets, living and minimum wages, social protection policy, and education quality and inequality.