Abigail Orbe

Abigail Orbe is a PhD student in the Department of Economics at Brown University. Her research interests include labor and public economics, with a focus on access to opportunity and intergenerational mobility. She has previously worked on projects related to the long-run impacts of college financial aid and charter school effectiveness and helped build the first national database of K-12 per-pupil expenditures in the U.S. Before coming to Brown, Abigail worked as a predoctoral researcher at MIT Blueprint Labs. She holds a BA in Economics and a Certificate in Education Finance from Georgetown University.