Caitlin is a fifth year doctoral student in Wharton's Applied Economics program, specializing in urban and real estate economics. Her ongoing research includes how ride-sharing platforms reshape the commercial landscape of cities by changing residents' consumption patterns, and how liquid global capital flows influence illiquid local markets through housing transactions (joint with Professor Benjamin Keys). Other interests include issues of income and skill distributions in cities, and urban decline and revitalization. Prior to graduate school, Caitlin worked as a research associate at the Federal Research Bank of New York in the capital markets research function. She worked on researching underwater mortgages, the introduction of floating rate treasury notes, and drivers of stock market flash crashes. Caitlin earned her bachelor's degree at Duke University, majoring in Economics, where she wrote her honors thesis on trailer parks and low-income housing options.