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Biography
H. Elizabeth Peters, an Institute Fellow in the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population at the Urban Institute, is a labor economist and demographer with more than 30 years of experience in social and family policy research. Her work focuses on family and social investments in children and youth, family outcomes and risk factors, the role of the family as a social safety net, and the impacts of public policies on father involvement. She has several current projects that assess the impact and implementation of policies such as paid leave and schedule control that help workers manage work and nonwork responsibilities related to family. Her previous research has examined the effects of public policies such as divorce laws, child support policy, child care policy, taxes, and welfare reform on family and child behaviors and outcomes.
Before joining Urban, Peters was a professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University and was the founding director of the Cornell Population Center. She is currently Professor Emerita at Cornell. From 1993 to 2004, she was a partner in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development–funded Family and Child Well-Being Network, where she directed the network’s fatherhood efforts. She was also a member of the steering committee that guided the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics’ Nurturing Fatherhood initiative. Peters earned her MPP and PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
Research Reports
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October 29, 2020
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Brief Education and TrainingOctober 9, 2020
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Research Report Job Market and Labor ForceLola Loustaunau, Larissa Petrucci, Amelia Coffey, Eleanor Lauderback, H. Elizabeth Peters, Ellen Scott, Lina StepickSeptember 22, 2020
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Research Report Economic Growth and ProductivityDecember 10, 2019
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Research Report Poverty, Vulnerability, and the Safety NetOctober 11, 2019
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Research Report Education and TrainingTheresa Anderson, Breno Braga, Teresa Derrick-Mills, Alan D. Dodkowitz, H. Elizabeth Peters, Charmaine Runes, Mary K. Winkler, Adaeze Okoli, Natalie SpievackSeptember 12, 2019
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Research Report International DevelopmentH. Elizabeth Peters, Yasemin Irvin-Erickson, Shirley Adelstein, Ammar A. Malik, Teresa Derrick-Mills, Alberto Valido, Dorothy EsplageJune 10, 2019
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Research Report Adolescents and YouthTheresa Anderson, Breno Braga, Neil Damron, Teresa Derrick-Mills, Alan D. Dodkowitz, Micaela Lipman, Ananda Martin-Caughey, H. Elizabeth Peters, Eleanor Pratt, Mary K. WinklerDecember 18, 2017
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Research Report Taxes and BudgetMay 24, 2017