Tanya Byker is an associate professor of economics at Middlebury College. Her research focuses on the interrelated choices individuals make about education, work, and parenthood. She has studied how birth-related career interruptions in the United States vary by mother’s education, and the ways that parental leave laws impact labor supply decisions. In a developing country context, she has studied how access to family planning impacts fertility and longer-term outcomes such as schooling and employment in Peru and South Africa. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan in 2014 and her B.A. with honors in economics and philosophy from Swarthmore College.