morning received her primary- and secondary-school education at the united nations international school in new york city, where she graduated with an international baccalaureate in 1986. she then earned her b.a. in economics and political science at yale university in 1990. as an undergraduate she also studied in paris at the institut d’etudes politiques and université de paris iii (censier-daubenton) during the 1988-89 academic year. in 1992, she earned a master’s in international affairs from columbia university’s school of international and public affairs (sipa), and then a ph.d. in sociology in 2004 at princeton university, where she was affiliated with the office of population research.