Thanks for visiting my site! I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
my work
I am an applied microeconomist with research interests at the nexus of labor economics, public economics, and industrial organization. My current research focuses on education, child care, and crime. I take an inclusive methodological approach to research, using the best methods to answer the question at hand, including causal/design-based, structural, machine-learning, and descriptive tools. My work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the American Educational Research Association, the U.S. Department of Education, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
affiliations
I am an NSF Dissertation grantee, an American Educational Research Association Dissertation grantee, and a Pre-Doctoral Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Training Program (ITP) in Education Sciences at UW-Madison, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES). I also am a Graduate Research Fellow at the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), a Researcher at the U.S. Census Bureau’s Wisconsin Research Data Center (WiscRDC), and a Research Affiliate at the SSTAR Lab.
background
Before arriving to UW-Madison, I received a Master of Arts in Economics and Education from Columbia University (Teachers College). Before that, I worked as a research associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. I graduated magna cum laude from Mount Holyoke College with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Spanish. For more info, see my CV, check out this profile of me, or reach out: marifian[at]wisc[dot]edu.