She is a policy analyst with an interest in applying evaluative science techniques to the functioning of the health and labor markets. She is particularly interested in market imperfections, policy interventions, and the consequences on behavior and well-being of individual agents. Her research primarily examines the retirement behavior of older workers and how poor health impacts their decisions. This has implications for Social Security Policy in predicting consequences of reform and for national health policy which has an impact on efficiency in the labor market. Her current research agenda is focused on the health market – including a study of childhood obesity and the role of school food policy, malpractice as a tool for promoting quality, patients self-treating in the health market as a consequence of the information boom, and evaluations of the health insurance delivery system in the U,S.