Javeria Qureshi is a Research Fellow at CERP. She is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests lie in labor economics, development economics, and economics of education, with a focus on the interactions between human capital production, gender, and the role of the family. Dr Javeria specializes in applied econometrics and impact evaluation, and some of her past work deals with intra-household spillovers in learning production, the impact of remittances on entrepreneurship, and the relationship between school quality and student achievement. She is currently a research fellow in the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) at Harvard Kennedy School (2020-2021). She received her PhD in Public Policy from the University of Chicago in 2012. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.