I am the Supplemental Poverty Measure Team Lead at the US Census Bureau in the Poverty Statistics Branch of SEHSD. My research currently focuses on poverty measurement by examining ways that we can improve existing measures and create new ones.

Recent Work

• How do Policies and Expenses Affect Supplemental Poverty Rates. With Mike King. America Counts

• Health Inclusive Poverty Measure in the United States: 2023. SEHSD Working Paper #2024-24 

Publications

• Unbanked and Impoverished? Exploring Banking and Poverty Interactions over time. With Lewis Warren. Journal of Consumer Affairs

• Poverty and the Incidence of Material Hardship, Revisited. With John Iceland and Claire Kovach. Social Science Quarterly

• Early Child Development in a large cash transfer: Exploring Sibling Effects in a Honduran Experiment. With Florencia Lopez-Boo. Economia