Laura Tach is an assistant professor of Policy Analysis & Management at Cornell University. Laura is a sociologist who studies urban poverty and family life. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy at Harvard University and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. Her mixed-methods research examines inequalities in family life, with a focus on how family structure reproduces inequality and how families utilize public and private safety nets. Her recent projects have examined child wellbeing in unstable and complex families, the dynamics of father involvement following nonmarital births, and how families view and use the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).