Her research interests are in urban economics and public finance. Her dissertation focused on the impact of changes in social insurance programs on elderly housing decisions, living arrangements within families, and home equity investments. She has recently started projects looking into the effects of living in a food desert on long-term health outcomes among the elderly, end-of-life homeownership decisions, why the elderly have a low take-up rate of food assistance programs, and investigating how bankruptcy laws differentially affect the elderly and their housing decisions.