Maddison Erbabian

Research

Working Papers

Love in the Time of Zika
with C. Austin Davis, Gaurav Khanna, and Margaret J. Lay
NBER Summer Institute Conference Draft
Draft

Research in Progress

Higher Education Expansion, Human Capital Formation, and Structural Transformation
Gender Gaps and Cross-Country Heterogeneity in the Effects of Higher Education Expansion
Risky Moves: Labor Market Risk & Migratory Decisions
with Steven Brownstone and Marina Perrupato Mendonca

Research on Pause

General Equilibrium Effects of a Positive Return to Schooling Shock
The Effects of Migration Frictions and School Locations on Intergenerational Mobility
with Idaliya Grigoryeva
Intergenerational Spillovers of Pension Receipt in Rural China: Labor Supply & Migration Responses
with Margaret J. Lay and Savana Wang

Undergraduate Thesis

Educational Spillovers of Higher Education Institutions in the Developing World: Case Studies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mount Holyoke College Honors Thesis, 2020. Awarded the Phoebe Tulman Perlman Prize for the Best Thesis in Economics and the Mary Lyon Scholar Award for an Exceptional Thesis.

Policy Writing

From 2020 to 2022 I was a Research Associate at the Penn Wharton Budget Model, where I co-authored policy analyses on education, labor, and fiscal policy.

Labor and Education

Fiscal Policy