Research
WORKING PAPERS
(Revise and resubmit) Elizabeth Pelletier and Jennifer Romich. “Supplementing State Unemployment Insurance Records with Demographic Data.”
(Under review) Elizabeth Pelletier, Scott W. Allard, Julia Karon, and Taryn Morrissey. “The Spatial Inequality of Local Early Care and Education Provision.”
Elizabeth Pelletier. “Differences in state paid family leave policy designs produce large disparities in eligibility.”
Elizabeth Pelletier, Heather D. Hill, and Jennifer Romich. “Parental Employment Instability Around the Birth of a Child: Prevalence and Disparities in Washington State.”
Hilary Wething and Elizabeth Pelletier. “Dynamic Earnings, Stable Benefits? An Examination of How Social Programs Respond to Household Earnings Volatility.”
Elizabeth Pelletier. “Neighborhood Racial Composition and Police Use of Force in Seattle.”
PUBLISHED WORK
Peer-Reviewed
Scott W. Allard and Elizabeth Pelletier. 2023. Volatility and Change in Suburban Nonprofit Safety Nets. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9 (2) 134-160.
Mark Long, Elizabeth Pelletier, and Jennifer Romich. 2022. Constructing Monthly Quasi-Residential Locations of Adults Using Merged State Administrative Data. Population Studies 76(2).
Taryn W. Morrissey, Scott W. Allard, and Elizabeth Pelletier. 2022. Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children’s School Readiness. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(3).
Scott W. Allard and Elizabeth Pelletier. 2021. Spatial Patterns of Poverty, Hardship, & Nonprofit Safety Net Provision in the U.S. Research on Social Security 6(2).
Elizabeth Pelletier and Paul Manna. 2017. Learning in Harm’s Way: Neighborhood Violence, Inequality, and American Schools. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 674(1): 217-239.
Policy Reports
Heather D. Hill, Elizabeth Pelletier, and Jennifer Romich. 2021. Parental Employment Around a Birth: Evidence from Washington State. Report produced for the Washington State Employment Security Department.
Mark Long, Elizabeth Pelletier, and Jennifer Romich. 2019. How did the Seattle Minimum Wage Affect Poor and Near-Poor Workers? Longitudinal Evidence from New Merged Administrative Data. Economic Self-Sufficiency Policy Research Institute Paper #20194.
Elizabeth Pelletier, Leigh Courtney, and Brian Elderbroom. 2018. Assessing the Impact of Idaho’s Parole Reforms. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute.
Elizabeth Pelletier, Bryce Peterson, Ryan King, and Leah Sakala. 2018. Prison Population Forecaster. Web feature. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute.
Samantha Harvell, Hanna Love, Elizabeth Pelletier, and Chloe Warnberg. 2018. Bridging Research and Practice in Juvenile Probation: Rethinking Strategies to Promote Long-term Change. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute.
Leigh Courtney, Elizabeth Pelletier, Sarah Eppler-Epstein, Ryan King, and Leah Sakala. 2017. A Matter of Time: The Causes and Consequences of Rising Time Served in America’s Prisons. Web feature. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute.
Elizabeth Pelletier, Bryce Peterson, and Ryan King. 2017. Assessing the Impact of Georgia’s Sentencing Reforms. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute.
Elizabeth Pelletier, Bryce Peterson, and Ryan King. 2017. Assessing the Impact of South Carolina’s Parole and Probation Reforms. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute.
Elizabeth Pelletier and Samantha Harvell. 2017. Data Snapshot of Youth Incarceration in New Jersey. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute.
Elizabeth Pelletier, Julia Durnan, and Samantha Harvell. 2017. Data Snapshot of Youth Incarceration in Wisconsin. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute.
Hanna Love, Elizabeth Pelletier, and Samantha Harvell. 2017. Data Snapshot of Youth Incarceration in Connecticut. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute.
Samantha Harvell, Jeremy Welsh-Loveman, and Hanna Love, with Julia Durnan, Josh Eisenstat, Laura Golian, Eddie Mohr, Elizabeth Pelletier, Julie Samuels, Chelsea Thomson, Margaret Ulle, and Nancy La Vigne. 2016. Reforming Sentencing and Corrections Policy: The Experience of Justice Reinvestment Initiative States. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute.
Ryan King, Bryce Peterson, Brian Elderbroom, and Elizabeth Pelletier. 2015. Reducing Mass Incarceration Requires Far-Reaching Reforms. Article and interactive data tool. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute.
Samuel Bieler, Elizabeth Pelletier, and Serena Lei. 2015. Washington, D.C.: Our Changing City: Public Safety. Web feature. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute.
Meredith Dank, Lilly Yu, Jennifer Yahner, Elizabeth Pelletier, Mitchyll Mora, and Brendan Conner. 2015. Locked In: Interactions with the Criminal Justice and Child Welfare Systems for LGBTQ Youth, YMSM, and YWSW Who Engage in Survival Sex. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute.