Jiewen Luo is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Rice University. Her research lies at the intersection of education, development, and labor economics, with a focus on child and adolescent human capital formation and the evaluation of social policy. She combines models of household behavior with administrative and survey data to study how households respond to policy incentives and how these responses shape children’s outcomes. She uses counterfactual policy analysis to inform the design of large-scale social programs. She is on the 2026–2027 academic job market.