She has been a David C. Lincoln fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy for the past three years. She received her PhD in economics from the University of Tennessee. Her research focuses on state and local tax policy, land taxation, behavior responses to taxation, and environmental policy. She published a co-authored book chapter in the Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government Finance. Her work has been published in National Tax Journal, Economic Modelling, and Chinese Economy, among others. She presented her recent research at American Economic Association Annual Meetings and National Bureau of Economic Research Conference.