Lisa Schulkind

Lisa Schulkind is an associate professor in the Economics Department in the Belk College of Business at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She was previously an assistant professor of economics at Trinity College. Her research focuses on understanding how parents’ decisions and circumstances affect their children and on using what she learns to make policy recommendations that will improve intergenerational mobility. Schulkind's studies on the effect of birth-timing manipulation on infant health have been published in the Journal of Health Economics. Her current research projects examine the effect of information about one’s own academic ability on educational attainment, the health impacts of Women Infants and Children (WIC), the intergenerational transmission of health, and the economic returns to education for teenage mothers. Schulkind received her PhD in economics from the University of California, Davis.

updated 2025