She taught at Mills College from 1917 to 1918, and then worked as an assistant to Yale economist Irving Fisher from 1918 to 1920.
[1] She also worked as an elementary school teacher; one of her students from this time, Margaret E. Martin, grew up to become a noted economist.
[4] As a graduate student in economics at Columbia University, Eliot met educational psychologist Robert Bruce Raup; they married in 1924,[2] but Eliot continued to use her maiden name for professional purposes.
[1] When her daughter Joan was born in 1926, she became the first woman at Barnard to obtain a maternity leave.
[2][5] Eliot is the author of the book The Farmer's Campaign for Credit (1927),[6][A] "a study of basic issues in credit theory as they were involved in United States agricultural policies early in this century".