Welcome! I am a Research Scientist at Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. I am a social demographer who studies variation in childbearing behavior and maternal and child health. My research integrates theoretical perspectives of family sociology and sociology of the life course with quantitative and quasi-experimental data analysis to explore how individual agency and social structure produce cross-time and cross-group differences in family formation and family health.
By studying the sources and consequences of variation in parenthood patterns and health, I contribute to scientific understanding of forces driving human behavior, factors behind long-term population change, as well as applied research on population health and public health interventions that can improve adult and child well-being.
Before joining Duke, I completed doctoral training in Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in Quantitative Methods at Warsaw School of Economics in Poland. I am also an alumna of the Royster Society of Fellows and the European Doctoral School of Demography.
I have an active research agenda in the areas of childlessness and low fertility, birth spacing and infant health, and policy evaluation.
