Ashley E. Orr
Welcome to my webpage. I am a PhD Candidate and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) Fellow in the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA USA). My research interests span labor economics, urban economics, inequality and poverty studies, public policy, education, and development economics.
I completed my Masters of Philosophy in Economics (MPhil) at the University of Oxford (Oxford, England) as a Rhodes Scholar. My MPhil thesis examined the effects of unconditional cash transfers on labor supply.
A first generation college graduate, I completed undergraduate degrees in Mathematics (BS) and Economics (BA) at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio. I have interned twice with the Fourth District of the Federal Reserve Bank in their Research department, completed NSF funded research at the department of Mathematics at Texas A&M University, and served as Student Body President of YSU's Student Government Association. During summer term I teach courses such as Preparatory Mathematics in the Quantitative Summer Skills Program or Development Economics at Oxbridge Academic Programs in Pembroke College, Oxford U.K.. In my spare time, I love long distance running, traveling, and playing board games.
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