Alexis Orellana is a lead economist at the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. He is an applied microeconomist with research interests in labor economics and the economics of education. His current work falls into two main categories, understanding the effects of implementing centralized school assignment systems on students’ outcomes and the relationship between college major choice and labor market outcomes. He has also studied how the Covid-19 pandemic changed the teacher workforce in Massachusetts.
Before joining Northwestern, he was a postdoctoral associate at the Wheelock Educational Policy Center at Boston University. He has been a lecturer at the University of Rochester and the University of Chile. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked as an economist at the Chilean Antitrust Agency.
Personal website: http://alexisorellana.github.io
- Education:
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Rochester, 2021
- M.Sc., Economics, University of Chile, 2013
- B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University of Chile, 2010