Biography

Kejda Llana is a Ph.D. Public Policy and Administration student and a graduate research assistant at the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy & Administration at the University of Delaware. She holds a Master of Science in Economics and Applied Econometrics from the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the American University in Bulgaria. Her research interests lie in housing policy, education and health policy, consumer finance, and household finance. As such, she has researched subsidized housing, food insecurity, peer effects on education, and school choice. Her dissertation focuses on examining the extent to which housing assistance programs affect the educational and health outcomes of public school children. She has presented her work at national conferences such as the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) and the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP).

Degrees

• M.Sc., Economics and Applied Econometrics, University of Delaware
• BA, Economics, cum laude, American University in Bulgaria (2018)       

PhD Advisor

Sarah Bruch

Websites

Kejda's personal website