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Ashlyn Aiko Nelson

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
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  • Post–Doctoral Fellow, Professor Linda Darling‐Hammond, Stanford University School of Education
  • 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

  • MacArthur Foundation, “Do Children Lose More than a Home? The Effects of Foreclosure on Children’s Educational Outcomes.” Co‐PI with David Figlio and Stephen L. Ross. Amount requested: $420,000. In review; currently a finalist (31 out of 224 applications were selected for the final round).
  • W.T. Grant Foundation Scholars Program. “The Housing Crisis: Effects on Youth Settings and Education Outcomes.” Amount requested: $350,000. In review; currently a finalist (18 out of 55 applicants were selected as finalists).
  • 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.” Principal Investigator. Award amount: $20,000. Funded June 2009.
  • Carnegie Foundation, “Beginning Teacher Effectiveness: What Matters for Student Learning?” Authored extension grant proposal (PI: Linda Darling‐Hammond). Award amount: $244,866. Funded March 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.
  • Spencer Foundation, “Multi‐District Collaboration for Evidence‐Based Reform.” Co‐authored grant proposal with Marsha Ing (PIs: Linda Darling‐Hammond and Susanna Loeb). Award amount: $641,244. Funded July 2008.
  • Stanford K‐12 Initiative, "Promoting Data‐Driven, Evidence‐Based Practices that Help to Attract, Develop, and Retain High Quality Teachers in Urban School Districts." Co‐authored grant application with Jorge Ruiz de Velasco (PIs: Linda Darling‐Hammond and Susanna Loeb). Award amount: $65,000. Funded December 2007.
  • Stanford Graduate Fellowship in Science and Engineering (SGF), 2001-2004

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

Current Projects
Conference Presentations

  • American Economics Association, 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. (in press). Credit scores, race, and residential sorting. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. (2008). Examining variation in school-based budgeting practices and strategic resource allocation in California. Working paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
  • Nelson, A.A. (2008). Examining variation in categorical funding expenditures for California schools. Working paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Finance Association.
  • Nelson, A.A. (2007). Credit scores and disparate impact. Unpublished manuscript.
  • Nelson, A.A. (2005). Better credit, better schools? Implications for linguistic minorities. Annual research report to the Ford Foundation.