Dr. Elizabeth Jacobs is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital and Computational Demography at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Her research agenda asks how institutions – state, corporate, and academic – shape the economic, social and spatial mobility of immigrants and refugees. Using computational techniques, she constructs and analyzes novel data sources to study the institutional reproduction of inequality in global contexts. Her scholarly interest encompass the areas of migration, race, gender, education and work.