Her research and teaching interests are in the fields of Economic Development, Demography, Applied Microeconomics, Labor, and International Trade. Her research has focused on human capital investments and child labor, the impact of economic reforms and liberalization on labor market outcomes and welfare, and on gender differences in survival in India. She received her BA in 1998 from Middlebury College, VT, and her Ph.D. in Economics in 2004 from the University of Maryland, College Park.