Susan L. Averett, Ph.D., is the Charles A. Dana professor of Economics at Lafayette College. She is the author of dozens of academic articles and book chapters. Her research covers a wide array of topics in both labor, health, and demographic economics. She is the co-editor (along with Saul Hoffman and Laura Argys) of the "Handbook on Women and the Economy" published in 2018 by Oxford University Press. She is the co-author with Saul Hoffman of the textbook “Women in the Economy: Family, Work and Pay” (now in its fourth edition) and in 2022 she and Laura Argys authored "Women in the Workforce: What Everyone Needs to Know" which was published by Oxford University Press. She is currently a co-editor at Economics and Human Biology. She was co-editor with Edward Gamber of the Eastern Economic Journal from 2010-2015. She is a past board member of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2012.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10185
published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2017, 24 (16), 1127 - 1130
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9608
published in: Applied Demography and Public Health in the 21st Century (pp. 201-219). 2017. Springer International Publishing.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9196
published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, 85 (1), 21 - 42
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9173
published as 'Effects of Higher EITC Payments on Children's Health, Quality of Home Environment, and Noncognitive Skills ' in: Public Finance Review, 2018, 46 (4), 519-557
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9052
published in: Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2016, 20(3), 655-664.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8153
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29(3), 757-779.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7512
published in: Health economics, 2017, 26(7), 875-891.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6898
published as 'Financial hardship and obesity' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2014, 15, 201-212
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6680
published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22 (11), 1344-1359
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