Alan Lujan

Alan Lujan

PhD Candidate in Economics

The Ohio State University

Biography

I’m a 4th year PhD Candidate at The Ohio State University Department of Economics. My research interest is at the intersection of credit access, educational attainment, and intergenerational mobility. In particular, I am interested in how differences in access to credit and heterogeneity in borrowing costs affect parental investment in early childhood development and later educational and labor market outcomes.

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Interests
  • Poverty and Inequality
  • Household Finance
  • Quantitative Macroeconomics
  • Computational Economics
Education
  • PhD in Economics, 2023 (Expected)

    The Ohio State University

  • MA in Economics, 2017

    The University of Texas at Austin

  • BSc in Pure Mathematics, 2013

    The University of Texas at Austin

  • BA in Economics with Special Honors, 2013

    The University of Texas at Austin

Skills

Python

Advanced

Open Source

Advanced

R

Intermediate

Research Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Econ-ARK
Google Summer of Code 2020 Student
Jun 2020 – Aug 2020
Worked with Dr. Carroll (JHU Economics) and Econ-ARK team on fast solutions to heterogeneous agent structural models of economic choices.

Awards and Scholarship

Surender Kumar Jain Award for Best Paper in Computational Economics
Economics Scholars Program for Undergraduate Research