She is an affiliate of Cornell’s Behavioral Economics and Decision Research Center, Institute on Health Economics, Health Behaviors and Disparities and the Institute for Behavioral and Household Finance. Her research focuses on identifying areas in which behavioral economics can improve social policy, primarily in the areas of public finance, health, consumer finance, and environmental economics. She received her PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 2013. Her dissertation, “Behavioral Economics and Public Policy,” received the National Tax Association’s Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. She will be a Faculty Fellow at the White House's Social and Behavioral Sciences Team (SBST) in the Spring of 2016.