Taylor Kelley Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Greater Atlanta Area

Greater Atlanta Area

Greater Atlanta Area

Conduct academic and policy-oriented research projects and assist economists via data munging, statistical/econometric analysis, mathematical modeling, literature reviews, and data visualization. Code primarily in Stata, Python, MATLAB, and SQL.Example projects:- Why is the Private Long-Term Care Market so Small and Coverage Denials so Frequent: created model for estimating lifetime nursing-home risk and life expectancies for heterogeneous types using multinomial logit regressions and transition simulations. Wrote and edited code for optimization model used to find equilibrium insurance contracts.- Text analysis of regional news: wrote web scraping code to set up database of articles from local newspaper and performed text analysis to explore to what extent news can quantitatively document or forecast regional economic activity.- Credit Usage of Displaced Workers: coauthoring research paper examining the use of credit before and after job displacement using employee- and firm- level administrative data matched to credit card and credit bureau data.- Young Adults Living with Parents: using Census and Current Population Survey data to document trends in young adults living with parents and exploring the roles of changes in demographics and the impact of the recession in explaining these patterns.

Greater Chicago Area

Assisted senior economists in the microeconomic research team by performing statistical analysis and data manipulation, writing code for models, reviewing relevant literature, and producing charts and figures.Coded primarily in Stata, Matlab, Python, Gauss, SAS, and RATS.Example projects:- Co-produced the Consumption and Housing Outlook memo for Federal Open Market Committee pre-briefings: analyzed labor, expenditure, and investment data and implemented changes in vector autoregression forecast model to better match post-recession housing market trends. - A Bayesian Analysis of Sibling Correlations in Health: maintained and edited Gibbs sampler with data augmentation code for paper exploring extent to which family background influences health outcomes.- Impact of Rosenwald Schools on Black Achievement: discovered existence of geodata for long-closed Rosenwald schools and learned Python to write web scraping program to collect it.- Expected Income Growth and the Great Recession: coauthored Economic Perspectives article documenting the consumption decline after the Great Recession and exploring the forecasting power of individuals’ expected real income growth.- Medicaid Insurance in Old Age: performed econometric analysis of Health and Retirement Study longitudinal data and generated charts and figures for paper studying impact of health costs and Medicaid on elderly savings patterns.