Helen Connolly is a labour economist and econometrician with a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA, US), an M.P.A. in education policy from Columbia University (New York, NY), and a B.A. in Economics and Psychology from Brandeis University (Waltham, MA, US).  She also received training in Computer Science from the University of Maryland (College Park, MD, US).

Prior to her time at the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Dr. Connolly has worked as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Northeastern University (Boston, MA, US), a health researcher at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Financing & Economics (Boston, MA, US), an economist and the New York City Department of Transportation (New York, NY, US), and a policy analyst at an environmental consulting firm (Washington, DC, US).

Dr. Connolly’s research interests include wage trajectories of low‑income workers, income policies (minimum wage, income assistance) and their effects on the low‑educated, and differences in employment and earnings by gender and parental status.