Author name: Pelin Akyol

Pelin Akyol is a Research Manager at the e61 Institute and an applied economist whose research spans the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), education, labour markets, and health. She uses both structural and reduced-form methods to study how public policy shapes decisions about education and work, and how those decisions affect outcomes across gender and demographic groups. Her recent research focuses on the design, sustainability, and distributional impacts of the NDIS, as well as on fertility and demographic change. Her work has been published in leading economics journals and featured in VoxEU and EducationWeek. Pelin holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Penn State University.