Elisabeth Jacobs
Elisabeth Jacobs

Senior Fellow

The Urban Institute

Elisabeth Jacobs is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute in the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population. She is also the deputy director of WorkRise. Jacobs is the former senior director for Family Economic Security at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, she was a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a co-founder of Brookings’ Social Mobility Memos blog. Earlier in her career, she served as senior policy advisor to the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress, and as an advisor to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Authored By Elisabeth Jacobs

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Paid family care leave is a missing piece in the U.S. social insurance system

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What does the research tell us about how best to design paid leave policies?

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Rising income inequality exacerbates downward economic mobility

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Women’s History Month: U.S. women’s labor force participation

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Paid Family and Medical Leave in the United States: A Research Agenda

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Are today’s inequalities limiting tomorrow’s opportunities?

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