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; the effects of economic change on youth

Keywords:

Adolescent Behavior, Economic Recession, Poverty, Risk-Taking, Sexual Behavior

Representative Publications

1. E.O. Ananat with Anna Gassman-Pines and Christina Gibson-Davis, Statewide job losses increase adolescent suicide-related behaviors, American Journal of Public Health (2014)
2. Gibson-Davis, C; Ananat, EO; Gassman-Pines, A, The Effect of Local Economic Downturns on Teen Births: Evidence from North Carolina, Revise and Resubmit, Demography (2012) [html] [job loss, economics, adolescence]
3. Ananat, EO; Fu, S; Ross, SL, Race-Specific Agglomeration Economies: Social Distance and the Black-White Wage Gap no. 18993 (April, 2013) [pdf] [abs] [racial inequality, economics]
4. E.O. Ananat with Anna Gassman-Pines, Dania Francis, and Christina Gibson-Davis, Children Left Behind: The Effects of Statewide Job Loss on Student Achievement, NBER Working Papers no. 17104 (2013) [w17104.pdf] [job loss]
5. Ananat, EO; Hungerman, DM, The Power of the Pill for the Next Generation: Oral Contraception's Effects on Fertility, Abortion, and Maternal & Child Characteristics., The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 94 no. 1 (February, 2012), pp. 37-51, ISSN 0034-6535 [22389533], [doi] [abs] [family structure]
6. Ananat, EO, The wrong side(s) of the tracks: The causal effects of racial segregation on urban poverty and inequality, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, vol. 3 no. 2 (April, 2011), pp. 34-66, American Economic Association, ISSN 1945-7782 [pdf], [doi] [abs] [poverty, racial inequality]
7. Ananat, EO; Washington, E, Segregation and Black political efficacy, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 93 no. 5-6 (June, 2009), pp. 807-822, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0047-2727 [pdf], [doi] [abs] [racial inequality]
8. Ananat, EO; Gruber, J; Levine, PB; Staiger, D, Abortion and selection, The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 91 no. 1 (February, 2009), pp. 124-136, MIT Press - Journals, ISSN 0034-6535 [Selection.%22], [doi] [abs] [economics]
9. Ananat, EO; Michaels, G, The effect of marital breakup on the income distribution of women with children, The Journal of Human Resources, vol. 43 no. 3 (January, 2008), pp. 611-629, University of Wisconsin Press, ISSN 0022-166X [pdf], [doi] [abs] [poverty, single parents]
10. Ananat, EO; Gruber, J; Levine, P, Abortion legalization and life-cycle fertility, The Journal of Human Resources, vol. 42 no. 2 (March, 2007), pp. 375-397, ISSN 0022-166X [abs] [public policy]