Elizabeth Peters
Cornell University
Elizabeth Peters, Ph.D.,Professor of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell and Project Director for the P01, is an economic demographer who has published extensively on topics related to marriage, divorce, child support policy, welfare reform, and father involvement. Peters has been a partner in the NICHD Family and Child Well-being Network and was the chair of the Network’s fatherhood workgroup.
As part of the network she was one of the co-organizers of the Fatherhood Involvement Conference held in October of 1996 and co-editor of the volume that resulted from the conference. She was also a member of the steering committee that guided the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics’ Nurturing Fatherhood initiative, coauthoring one of the chapters (“Conceptualizing Fatherhood”) in its final report.
Peters was a member of the Technical Review Committee for the National Longitudinal Surveys for many years. She has an extensive knowledge of these data, and she was involved in the design of some of the child support and fatherhood measures. Using these and other data she has published papers examining the influence of child support policies on child support receipt, the effect of child support on child well-being for both disrupted and non-marital families, and the relationship between child support and contact with non-residential fathers.
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