Her primary field of interest is labor economics. Her research spans across three main areas: immigration, entrepreneurship, and poverty. Her work in these areas focuses on understanding and empirically estimating the factors that influence the migration decisions and labor market outcomes of Latinos and immigrants. In particular, she tries to understand how gender, U.S. immigration policy, and antipoverty policies shape labor market experiences. She teaches Principles of Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Race and Gender, and the Economics of Immigration at the college.