Her research examines how public policies affect children and families’ health and well-being, especially low-income families. Her work has been published in Contemporary Economic Policy, Children and Youth Services Review, Health Services Research, and the American Journal of Public Health, and has been funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, and Pew Charitable Trusts. Check out the research page for more on her current work. She earned her PhD from Indiana University in April 2018.