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Elizabeth O Ananat

Elizabeth O Ananat

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics and Duke Population Research Institute
Contact Info 
Location: 209 Sanford Building
Office Phone: (919) 613-7302
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Mailing Address: 209 Sanford Building Durham, NC 27708
Teaching (Fall 2012):

  • PUBPOL 604.01, POLICY EVAL WITH DATA Synopsis
    Rubenstein 153, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
Education:
  • PhD. Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006
  • Master of Public Policy, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, 2001
  • B.A., summa cum laude, Williams College, 1999

Research Summary:
The intergenerational transmission of poverty and inequality; the economics of family formation and fertility; the causes and effects of racial segregation

Curriculum Vitae
Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. E.O. Ananat with Ebonya Washington, Segregation and Black Political Efficacy, Journal of Public Economics (2009) .
  2. E.O. Ananat with Jonathan Gruber, Phillip Levine, and Douglas Staiger, Abortion and Selection, Review of Economics and Statistics (2009) .
  3. E.O. Ananat with Guy Michaels, The Effect of Marital Breakup on the Income and Poverty of Women with Children, Journal of Human Resources, vol. 43 no. 3 (2008), pp. 611-629 .
  4. E.O. Ananat with Jonathan Gruber and Philiip Levine, Abortion Legalization and Lifecycle Fertility, Journal of Human Resources, vol. 42 no. 2 (2007), pp. 375-397 .
  5. E.O. Ananat and Joanna Lahey, The Marginal Child Throughout the Life Cycle: Evidence from Early Law Variation (2009) .
  6. E.O. Ananat with Sandra K. Danziger and Kimberly Browning, Child Care Subsidies and the Transition from Welfare to Work, Family Relations, vol. 53 (2004), pp. 219-228 .
  7. E.O. Ananat with Sheldon Danziger, Colleen Heflin, Mary Corcoran, and Hui-Chen Wang, Does It Pay to Move from Welfare to Work, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 21 no. 4 (2002), pp. 671-692 .
Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat is Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Economics at Duke University. She was born and raised in Evanston, Illinois. She received a B.A. in political economy and mathematics at Williams College in 1999, a master's degree in public policy from the Ford School at the University of Michigan in 2001, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006. Her research focuses on the intergenerational dynamics of poverty and inequality.