Her current research focuses on housing tenure, mortgage, and home improvement decisions; aging homeowners; and the intergenerational effects of housing wealth. She received her doctorate in public policy from NYU Wagner, where she studied urban and housing policy and was a doctoral fellow at the NYU Furman Center. Prior to Ryerson, Jackie spent ayear at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where she is still a visiting scholar. She also spent a summer as a graduate researcher at the University of Hong Kong. Jackie received a master's degree in city planning from UC Berkeley and an undergraduate degree in finance from the University of Notre Dame.