Ashlyn Aiko Nelson

Associate Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington

Dr. Ashlyn Aiko Nelson is an economist who studies how housing markets and financial institutions and policies influence the education market. Her research examines the causes and consequences of inequality in the overlapping housing and public education sectors. Nelson's work, funded with support from the MacArthur Foundation and the National Science Foundation, has been published in outlets including the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Financial Studies, Economics Letters, Education Finance and Policy, and Public Administration Review. Nelson joined the SPEA faculty in 2009. She also holds courtesy appointments in Economics and in Education Leadership and Policy Studies.