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Elizabeth T. Powers

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Associate Professor of Economics

214 David Kinley Hall

1407 W Gregory Dr.

Urbana, IL 61801

United States

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  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Scholarly Papers (5)

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1.

Gender Differences in Economics Course-Taking and Majoring: Findings from an RCT

Halim, Daniel, Elizabeth T. Powers, and Rebecca Thornton. 2021. "Gender Differences in Economics Course-Taking and Majoring: Findings from an RCT." World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9732 (July).
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 13 Mar 2022
Daniel Zefanya Halim, Elizabeth T. Powers and Rebecca L. Thornton
World Bank, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Economics, Students
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Gender, economics, RCT, college major

2.

The Impact of COVID on Illinois' Licensed Child Care Capacity

Institute of Government and Public Affairs Research Paper No. Forthcoming
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 21 Apr 2023
Elizabeth T. Powers
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 57 (1,000,027)

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research, child, covid, Illinois, programs, initiatives, racial, Edgar, pandemic

3.

Should Illinois Eliminate the State Grocery Tax?

Institute of Government and Public Affairs Policy Spotlight, April 2024
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 20 May 2024
Elizabeth T. Powers
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 44 (1,133,231)

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Tax, Grocery, Income, State, Snap

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Is it Possible to Make "Easy" Cuts to Human Services Spending by Attacking Waste, Fraud, and Abuse?

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 02 Aug 2021
Elizabeth T. Powers
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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fraud, programs, public, administrative, services, alternative spending, waste, board, human, fiscal

5.

Illinois State Policies for Worker Protection

Institute of Government and Public Affairs Research Paper
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 11 May 2026
Elizabeth Piekarz, Vanessa M. Oddo, Emily Stiehl, Elizabeth T. Powers and Sage Kim
University of Illinois at Chicago - Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois at Chicago
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Leave, Wage, Illinois, Workers, Minimum