She is also a research associate with the Free Market Institute. She completed her PhD in economics at West Virginia University and earned a BS in Business Economics from Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Her research interests include the fields of development and growth economics, applied econometrics, and applied microeconomics. Jamie was a Mercatus Center Adam Smith Fellow during the 2012-2013 academic year and a Visiting Dissertation Fellow during the 2015-2016 academic year.