LEADERSHIP & STAFF
founder-directors
Elisabeth
Jacobs
Jal Mehta
staff
Ben
Ansell
Lydia
Bean
Jane
Gingrich
David
J. Harding
Matissa
Hollister
Joel
Horwich
Tomás
Roberto
Jiménez
Matthew
Kaliner
Michal
Kurlaender
Jason
Lakin
Therese
Leung
Elizabeth
Oltmans
Ananat
Judy
Scott-Clayton
Patrick
Sharkey
Adam
Thomas
Vesla
Mae Weaver
Christopher
Wimer
Scott
Winship
Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests include the causes of U.S. poverty and inequality and the ways in which social policy can be redesigned to better address these problems. Recent papers have focused on barriers faced by welfare recipients, the effect of child care subsidies on poor women's labor supply, the causes of persistent racial segregation, and the effects of the rising divorce rate on inequality. She earned a Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan in 2001 and is the recipient of a Jacob K. Javits Graduate Fellowship.