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Elizabeth Frankenberg

Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies

Office Phone: (919) 613-9311
E-mail Address: e.frankenberg@duke.edu
Location: 178 Rubenstein Hall
Website: http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Economics/faculty/e.frankenberg
Mailing Address: 178 Rubenstein Hall BOX_90312 Durham, NC 27708
CV: Curriculum Vitae

Research Summary

My research focuses on health and mortality, the long term effects of natural disaster especially with regard to health and socioeconomic status, relationships between the status of women and women's health and prosperity, and family decision making. Of particular importance to research in the field of aging is the Fourth Indonesian Family Life Survey of Aging that is the 4th wave of an on-going longitudinal survey of close to 40,000 respondents. A second study in Indonesia looks at the evolution of well-being among older adults after the tsunami of December 2004. In assessing damage in Sumatra, my research team was able, through the use of a GIS, to link data collected via satellite to census and survey data collected on the ground. This has allowed the rapid estimation of mortality and disease burdens associated with natural disasters.

Publications (More Publications)

E. Frankenberg, T Gillespie, S Preston, B Sikoki, D Thomas (2011) Mortality, the Family, and the Indian Ocean Tsunami The Economic Journal
D Thomas, F Witoelar, E Frankenberg, B Sikoki, J Strauss, C Sumantri, W Suriastini (2010) Cutting the Costs of Attrition: Results from the Indonesia Family Life Survey Journal of Development Economics
E. Frankenberg,A. Buttenheim, B. Sikoki, W. Suriastini (2009) Do Women Increase Their Use of Reproductive Health Care When it Becomes More Available? Studies in Family Planning
J. Nobles, E. Frankenberg (2009) Mothers’ Community Participation and Child Health Journal of Health and Social Behavior