Aly Blakeney

Aly Blakeney is a third-year Ph.D. student in Economic Education at the University of Delaware. Her research interests involve evaluating adolescent financial literacy, as well as the impact of exposure to economics and/or personal finance education in secondary school on college access and FAFSA completion.

She holds B.A.s in Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Merced and a M.S. in Resource and Applied Economics from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Education

• M.S., Resource and Applied Economics, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 2016
• B.A., Economics, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, 2012
• B.A., Political Science, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, 2012

Professional Experience

• Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Research in Education and Social Policy, University of Delaware, 2017–present
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Delaware, 2020–present
• Doctoral Intern, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa, 2019
• Research Analyst, Statewide Institutional Research, Planning, and Analysis, University of Alaska, 2016–2017
• Economic Research Assistant, National Bureau of Economic Research, University of California, Merced, 2009–2012

Presentations

• Blakeney, A. (2019, April). School or Home? The Factors Most Impacting Student Financial Literacy. Poster presented at the Annual Steele Symposium, Newark, Delaware.
• May, H., Sarfo, A., Blakeney, A. (2019, April). A Case for Regression Discontinuity Design in Impact Evaluations. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association, Toronto, Canada.
• May, H., Sarfo, A., Blakeney, A. (2019, January). Evaluating the Impact of Reading Recovery on 1st Grade Literacy: Comparing Impact Estimates from a Regression Discontinuity (RD) Design to a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT). Poster presented at the Institute of Education Sciences Annual Principal Investigators Meeting, Washington, D.C..
• May, H., Sarfo, A., Blakeney, A. (2018, November). Replication of Large Scale RCT Results with Regression Discontinuity: The Case of the Reading Recovery i3 Scale-up. Poster presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference, Washington, D.C..
• Sarfo, A., Giancola, S., May, H., & Blakeney, A. (2018, October). A Case for Regression Discontinuity Design in Impact Evaluations. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Cleveland, IL.