Shari Eli is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her fields of research are economic history, health economics, and demography. One section of her research explores the ways in which individuals of low socioeconomic status used cash transfers to improve their health status over the course of the lifecycle. Another section explores the intergenerational persistence of welfare receipt as well as the relationship between social assistance and marriage decisions.
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