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Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
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.

Headquarters of an ecommerce company
Bangalore, India

Late afternoon in the foyer of a computer science classroom
New Delhi, India

Customers shopping for an iPhone
New York City

Headquarters of an ecommerce company
Bangalore, India
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