NBER profile: Hilary Hoynes.

Hilary Hoynes is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Aging, Children, Labor Economics, and Public Economics. She is also a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis, and the coeditor of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. She joined the UC Davis faculty after eight years at the University of California, Berkeley.

Hoynes received her undergraduate degree from Colby College and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She specializes in the study of poverty, inequality, and the impacts of government tax and transfer programs on low-income families...