Her research lies at the intersection of environmental and development economics, with a focus on public goods provision and natural resource use by households in developing countries, including Zambia, Malawi, Bolivia and South Africa. She is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an affiliate of the Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), where she spent a year as a post doctoral researcher with the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative. Jack received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and her PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University. Prior to graduate school, she worked in Laos for two years.