Overview

Dr. Ellyson's research focuses on how policies, incentives, and structures shape individual health and well-being. Most of her work focuses on interpersonal violence namely gender-based violence and health risk behaviors like alcohol and firearm use among youth and young adults. She aims to build a research program of rigorous empirical research employing quasi-experimental and causal inference methods to (1) understand the incentives and dynamics that drive interpersonal violence and health risk behaviors, (2) improve structures of support for victim-survivors who experience gender-based violence, people who use substances, and their families, (3) reimagine systems, infrastructure, and policies that reduce interpersonal violence and health risk behaviors and their subsequent harms. 

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​Research interests: Public policy (economic, health, crime), law and regulation, sexual and intimate partner violence, health risk behaviors