Her research focuses broadly on interactions beween humans and land, and bridges the fields of development and environmental economics. She has worked on projects in Mexico, China, Sudan, Uganda, and Eastern Europe. Her publications have appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (PNAS), the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and the Journal of Economic Geography, among others. She is currently co-editor of the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.