Ellie Terry started the Evans School Ph.D. Program in Public Policy and Management in 2019. Her research focuses on policies that promote economic mobility, including the social safety net, health policy, and postsecondary education policy. She specializes in analyzing social policy problems through economic and psychological lenses. Her dissertation research examines the mechanisms behind child development accounts. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including the National Tax Journal.
Prior to joining the Evans School of Public Policy, Ellie worked in various roles at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, where she contributed to numerous Federal Reserve Bank discussion papers and blogs. Ellie earned a master’s degree in Applied Economics and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from The Florida State University and has taught data analysis and data visualization.
Ruder, Alexander and Ellyn Terry. “Benefits Cliffs and Career Advancement Coaching with the Atlanta Fed’s CLIFF Tools: Implementation Evaluation of the National Pilot,” Atlanta Fed Community & Economic Development Discussion Paper Series, 2024-1. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. https://doi.org/10.29338/dp2024-01
Ilin, Elias, Samantha Shampine, and Ellyn Terry. 2022.“Does Access to Free Prekindergarten Increase Maternal Labor Supply?”. FRB Atlanta Working Paper Series 2022-3. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. https://doi.org/10.29338/wp2022-03
Birken, Brittany, Ilin, Elias, Ruder, Alexander, and Ellyn Terry. 2021. “Restructuring the Eligibility Policies of the Child Care and Development Fund to Address Benefit Cliffs and Affordability: Florida as a Case Study”. Community & Economic Development Discussion Paper Series, 2021-01. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Ilin, Elias, and Ellyn Terry. 2022. “Estimating Occupation and Location Specific Wages over the Life Cycle.” Business and Economic Research, 12 (2): 46. https://doi.org/10.5296/ber.v12i2.19731
Altig, Dave, Alan Auerbach, Patrick Higgins, Darryl Koehler, Laurence Kotlikoff, Ellyn Terry, and Victor Ye, 2020. “Did the 2017 Tax Reform Discriminate against Blue State Voters?”. National Tax Journal, 73 (4). https://doi.org/10.17310/ntj.2020.4.08
Higgins, Patrick, Julie L Hotchkiss, and Ellyn Terry. 2019. “Evolution of Behavior, Uncertainty, and the Difficulty of Predicting Labor Force Participation.” Business and Economic Research [Online], 9.4: 157-178. https://doi.org/10.5296/ber.v9i4.15350
Terry, Ellyn. “Social Safety Net Policy Levers for State Governments,” (in revision), State and Local Government Review
Hartig, Seth, Ilin, Elias, McTier, Austin, Reyes, Edgar, and Terry, Ellyn. “Modeling the US Social Safety Net using the Policy Rules Database.”