Dr. Joanna Venator is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston College and a faculty affiliate of Boston College’s Global Public Health program. She received her PhD in economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research explores the role of family structure on women’s economic outcomes, with two main areas of study. The first area of study explores how restrictions to abortion access shape women’s fertility outcomes and contraceptive choice, and the second examines how marital status and fertility impacts women’s internal migration decisions and earnings.
Joanna Venator is a 2024 grantee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Data for Action program, managed by AcademyHealth.