She is also an associate editor of Education Finance and Policy, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Her research focuses on higher education policy and the for-profit sector specifically. Recent papers examine the labor market outcomes of for-profit college students and the impact of federal student aid on tuition. Her work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and the American Economic Journal: Policy, among others. She received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and a B.A. in public policy from Stanford University.