She joined the University of Victoria in July 2003 after finishing her Ph.D. in Economics at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Many of her papers deal with policy evaluation, whether in the field of family economics or in the context of interjurisdictional competition. Her contribution in family economics is threefold: modeling family decision-making, analyzing policy, and modeling parents’ investments in their children. She likes to go to the opera. Some of Shakespeare’s plays are familiar to her not just as plays but also because of their musical adaptations by Verdi, Mendelsohn, Britten, and Bernstein.