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IPR Faculty Affiliate Elizabeth Cooksey to direct the Center for Human Resource Research

June 22, 2015

IPR Faculty Affiliate Elizabeth Cooksey to direct the Center for Human Resource Research

headshot of Professor Elizabeth Cooksey

IPR Faculty Affiliate and Professor of Sociology Elizabeth Cooksey has been named the new Director of the Center for Human Resource Research at Ohio State University. Professor Cooksey is currently CHRR's Associate Director. She will succeed Randall Olsen, Professor of Economics, IPR Faculty Affiliate and previous Director of the Institute for Population Research.

CHRR has also been awarded a $52M contract to continue its work on the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth. Professor Cooksey is the PI of the NLSY's Child and Young Adult surveys.