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Alison Berube is a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, specializing in Consumer Behavior and Family Economics within the School of Human Ecology. Her research focuses on the complex interplay of family dynamics, neighborhood mobility, and economic behavioral well-being, with a particular emphasis on families involved in the child support system. She is dedicated to understanding policies that promote financial stability and how they intersect with social systems to create new challenges for families. Prior to her doctoral studies, Berube earned her Bachelor's degree in Finance and Financial Economics from the University of Maine, where she gained practical experience as a volunteer tax preparer and competed in the International Collegiate Business Strategy Group Competition. Currently, she collaborates with Professors Judith Bartfeld and Megan Bea at the Institute for Research on Poverty as a graduate research fellow, investigating how neighborhood context and residential mobility affect compliance with child support orders, as well as exploring the consequences of driver’s license suspensions on child support-involved parents, particularly in geographically disadvantaged areas.
Department: Department of Computer Sciences