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Elly Miles
Senior Research Associate
Family and Financial Well-Being Division Early Childhood

Elly Miles is a senior research associate in the Family and Financial Well-Being Division at the Urban Institute. Her research focuses on reducing disadvantage for children and families in marginalized and adversity-exposed populations, such as refugees and families experiencing elevated stress. Miles is a community-engaged and mixed-methods researcher, with experience codeveloping and coleading community-based participatory research with members of marginalized communities. Before joining Urban, Miles was an Early Care and Education Research Scholar through Office of Planning Research and Evaluation at the Administration for Children and Families, where she analyzed state-level family support records to identify “what works for whom” among families facing stress and instability. Miles also worked as an independent consultant, where she conducted projects focused on infant and early childhood mental health consultation in Colorado.

Miles holds an MA and a PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Denver.

Research and Evidence
Family and Financial Well-Being Technology and Data
Expertise
Early Childhood Research Methods and Data Analysis Families Immigration
Tags
Refugees and global migration Mental health Child care and early education Children's health and development Early childhood home visiting Immigrant children, families, and communities Children and youth Participatory research

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