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Elisabeth Jacobs

Special Guest, Governance Studies

Elisabeth Jacobs is a special guest at Brookings. Her research interests include family economic insecurity, social insurance policy and public opinion on economic and social policy matters. She is completing a volume on public opinion toward government intervention on behalf of the poor: Brothers' Keeper? The Limits of Solidarity From the New Deal to the Age of Inequality.

Expertise

Economic mobility and volatility, risk perception, social insurance policy, economic inequality

Background

Current Positions
Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University Department of Sociology; Doctoral Fellow, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government; Research Fellow, Program on Justice, Welfare and Economics at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Co-Founder/Director, New Vision: an institute for policy and progress

Past Positions
Research Associate, Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law; Project Consultant, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University (expected 2008); A.M., Harvard University, 2003; B.A., Yale University, 1999

Research and Commentary

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