Thank you for visiting my tiny corner of the internet. I am an Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University (NYU) and the founder and Executive Director of the Cash Transfer Lab. I am a social demographer with expertise in American fertility, social networks and survey methodology.

I earned my PhD in Sociology and Demography at UC Berkeley and therefore am also trained as a formal demographer. I had a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia before beginning my work at NYU.

My published work focuses on overlapping subject-areas: (1) Cash transfers, in particular the longstanding cash transfer in Alaska; (2) abortion in the United States; (3) pregnancies taken to term and (4) people keeping secrets from each other.