Erin Lane received her Master of Social Work degree from the University of Michigan in 2010 and her B.A. in Economics with Honors and Distinction from the University of Michigan in 2004. Her graduate and undergraduate studies emphasized quantitative research methodology, and she spent a portion of her graduate work quantifying the effects of public health insurance expansion on private health insurance coverage. Since joining applEcon as an analyst in August 2004, she has had extensive experience in data processing and analysis.