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University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research
Food for Thought
UKCPR research affiliate Colleen Heflin of Syracuse University just published a book at the Russell Sage Foundation with her colleague Madonna Harrington Meyer on the determinants and correlates of food insecurity among older adults in the United States.
Understanding Doubled-Up Households
Hope Harvey of the Martin School and UKCPR publishes book at Princeton University Press examining what circumstances and motivations lead families to form doubled-up households.
Improving Student Loan Repayment
UKCPR Associate Director Raj Darolia and collaborators publish an expansive study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences using tools from behavioral economics to study whether nudges reduce loan delinquency among student loan borrowers.
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Spotlight
Eleanor Krause is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky.
Eleanor joined the department in the fall of 2024 after completing her Ph.D. in Public Policy at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Her research applies the insights and methods from public, labor, and urban economics to study questions related to the environment, economic opportunity, and geographic inequality. Much of her current work explores the distributional and labor market consequences of the clean energy transition, including applications to the Appalachian region. She is a current recipient of an Early Career Award from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
Prior to her doctoral studies, Eleanor worked in the Economic Studies Program at The Brookings Institution and the U.S. Climate Initiative at the World Resources Institute.
Read more about Eleanor on her faculty page.
