Biography:
Melinda Morrill is the Jenkins Family Distinguished Professor of Economics at North Carolina State University's Poole College of Management and a University Faculty Scholar. She is a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers, an NBER Faculty Research Associate, and a TIAA Institute Fellow. She serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance.
Her research addresses fundamental questions about how government and employer programs shape individual behavior and well-being across the life course. Using rigorous causal inference methods, she generates credible empirical evidence that informs policy debates in education, labor markets, health, and retirement security.
Morrill has served as PI or co-PI on numerous grants totaling over $2.5 million, with support from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Institute on Aging, the Social Security Administration, the TIAA-CREF Institute, and others. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Economics of Education Review, and other leading field journals, and has been covered by the Washington Post, New York Times, Vox, Newsweek, and the Los Angeles Times.
Prof. Morrill earned a B.S. in Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000 and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2008.
