Research Interests for Elizabeth O Ananat

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

Representative 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