Elizabeth O Ananat, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics  

Office Location: 209 Sanford Building
Office Phone: (919) 613-7302
Email Address: elizabeth.ananat@duke.edu
Note:On sabbatical 2009-10

Areas of Expertise

  • Public Finance, Tax and Expenditure Analysis
  • Social Policy
    • Demography
    • Gender
    • Poverty and Welfare
    • Race/Ethnicity

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

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. E.O. Ananat with Dan Hungerman. "The Power of the Pill for the Marginal Child."   (Submitted, under revision for REStat).
  2. E.O. Ananat. "The Wrong Side(s) of the Tracks: The Causal Effect of Racial Segregation on Urban Poverty and Inequality."   (Submitted, under revision for AEJ: Applied).
  3. E.O. Ananat with Ebonya Washington. "Segregation and Black Political Efficacy." Journal of Public Economics (2009).
  4. E.O. Ananat with Jonathan Gruber, Phillip Levine, and Douglas Staiger. "Abortion and Selection." Review of Economics and Statistics (2009).
  5. E.O. Ananat with Guy Michaels. "The Effect of Marital Breakup on the Income and Poverty of Women with Children." Journal of Human Resources 43.3 (2008): 611-629.
  6. E.O. Ananat with Jonathan Gruber and Philiip Levine. "Abortion Legalization and Lifecycle Fertility." Journal of Human Resources 42.2 (2007): 375-397.
  7. E.O. Ananat and Joanna Lahey. "The Marginal Child Throughout the Life Cycle: Evidence from Early Law Variation."   (2009).
  8. E.O. Ananat with Sandra K. Danziger and Kimberly Browning. "Child Care Subsidies and the Transition from Welfare to Work." Family Relations 53 (2004): 219-228.
  9. 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 21.4 (2002): 671-692.

Curriculum Vitae

Bio/Profile
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.

Elizabeth O Ananat