Dr. Olga Belskaya, Ph.D.

Dr. Olga Belskaya earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015. Her research spans two areas: labor economics and health economics. The first involves labor economics and labor market outcomes of college-educated workers. This work studies how the expansion of college education affects the return to college for marginal individuals as well as the changes in return to college quality. The second area studies the effects of shocks in early childhood on health, education, and labor market outcomes in adulthood. Dr. Belskaya uses a variety of econometric techniques in her research, including panel data and instrumental variable estimation, decomposition methods, and marginal treatment effect estimation.