Overview
Dr. Ellyson's research focuses on how policies, incentives, and infrastructure shape individual health and well-being. Most of her work focuses on interpersonal violence especially gender-based violence and health risk behaviors like alcohol and firearm use among youth and young adults. Dr. Ellyson's research employs quasi-experimental and causal inferences methods to evaluate economic, health, and other public policies. She often studies structures of support for victim-survivors who experience gender-based violence (e.g., Title IX reporting structures at institutions of higher education and the civil legal system protection order process). The goal of her research program is to limit the negative consequences of health risk behaviors and reduce violence by providing rigorous empirical research to inform both policy and practice.
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Research interests: Economic, health, and public policy, law, violence and crime, sexual and intimate partner violence, health risk behaviors, incentives and decision making
Areas of expertise: Applied microeconomics, Applied econometrics and causal inference, Policy evaluations
Read more about publications, funded projects, collaborations, and media.
Research interests: Economic, health, and public policy, law, violence and crime, sexual and intimate partner violence, health risk behaviors, incentives and decision making
Areas of expertise: Applied microeconomics, Applied econometrics and causal inference, Policy evaluations
