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Ashlyn Aiko Nelson

Assistant Professor


Education
Ph.D. Economics of Education, Stanford University, 2005
M.A. Economics, Stanford University, 2003
B.S. Business Administration, University of Southern California, 2001
B.A. Economics, University of Southern California, 2001

Professional Experience
Current Vita pdf

  • Post–Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Research on Education Policy and Practice (IREPP), Stanford University School of Education
  • Assistant Vice President, Analysis and Information Management, Bank of America

Awards, Honors & Certifications

  • Western Finance Association: Analysis Group Award for the Best Paper on Financial Institutions and Markets. Award amount: $5,000, Funded 2010
  • Emerging Education Policy Scholar, Thomas B. Fordham Institute and American Enterprise Institute, Funded 2010
  • Faculty Research Support Program, Indiana University. “Do Children Lose More than a Home? The Effects of Foreclosure on Children’s Educational Outcomes.” Principal Investigator. Award amount: $42,943. Funded May 2010.
  • Research Seed Grant Program, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University. “Do Children Lose More than a Home? The Effects of Foreclosure on Children’s Educational Outcomes.” award amount: $20,000. Funded June 2009.
  • National Science Foundation, “Predatory Lending, Predatory Borrowing, and the Mortgage Crisis: Evidence from Loan-Level Data from a Large Bank.” Senior consultant to the project; co-authored grant proposal (PIs: Wei Jiang and Edward Vytlacil). Award amount: $624,993. Funded December 2008.

Professional Interest
Housing finance, education finance, education policy, the mortgage crisis

Current Projects
Conference Presentations

  • NBER Summer Institute 2010: Working Group on Household Finance, 2010
  • Advancing Applied Econometrics, 2010
  • Econometric Society World Congress, 2010
  • Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Meeting, 2010
  • American Economics Association(AEA), 2010
  • American Education Finance Association(AEFA), 2010
  • American Educational Research Association(AERA), 2010
  • Moody’s/New York University Annual Credit Risk Conference, 2010
  • Western Finance Association(WFA), 2010
  • Tax Policy Center and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy: The Housing Crisis and Its Effect on State and Local Government, 2010
  • Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Meeting, 2009
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Center for Financial Research: Improving Assessment of the Default Risk of Single-Family Mortgages, 2009
  • Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank: Recent Developments in Consumer Credit and Payments, 2009
  • NBER Summer Institute 2009: Project on Market Institutions and Financial Market Risk, 2009
  • American Education Finance Association (AEFA) Annual Meeting, 2009
  • Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Meeting American Education Finance Association (AEFA) Annual Meeting, 2008
  • Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Meeting, 2007
  • American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, 2006
  • Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Annual Meeting, 2003
  • Thematic Option Undergraduate Conference, University of Southern California, 1998

Selected Publications

  • Nelson, A.A. (Forthcoming, 2010). Is hindsight 20/20? Unpacking the mortgage crisis [Review of the book Subprime Nation: American Power, Global Capital, and the Housing Bubble by H.M. Schwartz]. Irrational markets, irrational behavior [Review of the book Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by G.A. Akerlof and R.J. Shiller]. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
  • Nelson, A.A. (May 2010). "Bailing out underwater mortgages." The School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) Insights. Retrieved from http://www.indiana.edu/~spea/about_spea/policy_briefs/mortgages_nelson.pdf.
  • Nelson, A.A. (2009). Credit scores, race, and residential sorting. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 29(1) 39-68.
  • Nelson, A.A. (In Press). Inequalities in access to credit for language minorities. In J. Baugh (Ed.), Linguistic profiling: Social science, fair housing, and the law.
  • Jiang, W., Nelson, A.A., & Vytlacil, E. (2009). Liar’s loan? Effects of origination channel and information falsification on mortgage delinquency. Manuscript submitted for publication.
  • Jiang, W., Nelson, A.A., & Vytlacil, E. (2009). Mortgage securitization and loan performance: A contrast of ex ante and ex post relations. Working paper.
  • Nelson, A.A., & Loeb, S. (2009). San Francisco’s weighted student formula policy: Who gained and who lost? Working paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Finance Association.
  • Nelson, A.A. (2009). How effective is school-based budgeting? Evidence from California. Working paper.
  • Nelson, A.A. (2007). Credit scores and disparate impact. Unpublished manuscript.