Eleanor Krause joined the faculty at the University of Kentucky as an Assistant Professor of Economics after receiving her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2024. Her research applies the insights and methods from public, labor, and urban economics to study questions related to the environment, economic opportunity, and spatial inequality. She has worked on a range of topics, including the labor market consequences of the decline in coal, the determinants of regional economic performance, and the impact of housing markets on population mobility and environmental valuation. Prior to her Ph.D., Eleanor conducted research for the Brookings Institution and the World Resources Institute. She received an M.P.A. from the University of Washington, and she holds a B.A. in Political Science and B.S. in Environmental Studies (summa cum laude) from the University of Vermont.
