She received her PhD from Northwestern University in 2003, and has been a visiting scholar in CREST (Paris), UBC (Vancouver), Columbia University (New York), and Boston University. Her fields of research include labor, public, and demographic economics, and she has worked on topics related to migration, female labor supply, divorce, and infant health. She has published in journals such as the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Applied Econometrics, European Economic Review, Labour Economics, etc.